“I’m hardly able to support myself.”
“Get a wife with money. Your talents are a fair set off to a fortune.”
“A very poor fortune they have yielded so far.”
“It will be different a few years hence. Get a wife with money enough to make you easy and comfortable, and then give yourself up heart and soul to your profession without a thought or care about dollars and cents. Your wife will make a good investment of her money, and you will be as happy as a king.”
“Upon my word!” said Ellison, laughing, “you have made out the case finely.”
“Wont it do?”
“It looks all very pretty.”
“Can you make out a better case yourself?”
“Perhaps not. But the next thing is the lady.”
“No difficulty about that.”