"No body had more need on't than I."
"Not handsome, but rich: and so, I suppose you will soon learn to sing the old ballad—
"Her golden charms so sweetly shine,
While rising to my raptured view;
That I would rather call them mine,
Than any girl I ever knew!"
"Why, you don't mean to poke fun at me, I hope?"
"Not at all: But have you got the ready? Did she give you the guineas, or good bills of exchange, with her person?"
"Why, no, not exactly that. The fact is, that her property belonged to her husband, the late Captain Scarlett, of the King's Own, and it's all vested in real estate."
"And you are quite sure?"