r."

"I shouldn't wonder at that in the least," said Frank.

"I know there'll be trouble," continued Eustace, "and Fawn won't
be able to help us through it. She's a strong-willed, cunning,
obstinate, clever little creature. Camperdown swears he'll be too
many for her, but I almost doubt it."

"And therefore you wish I were going to marry her?"

"Yes, I do. You might manage her. The money comes from the Eustace
property, and I'd sooner it should go to you than a half-hearted,
numb-fingered, cold-blooded Whig, like Fawn."

"I don't like cunning women," said Frank.

"As bargains go, it wouldn't be a bad one," said Eustace. "She's very
young, has a noble jointure, and is as handsome as she can stand.
It's too good a thing for Fawn;--too good for any Whig."

When Eustace left him, Greystock lit his cigar and walked with it
in his mouth from Pall Mall to the Temple. He often worked there at
night when he was not bound to be in the House, or when the House
was not sitting,--and he was now intent on mastering the mysteries
of some much-complicated legal case which had been confided to him,
in order that he might present it to a jury enveloped in increased
mystery. But, as he went, he thought rather of matrimony than of
law;--and he thought especially of matrimony as it was about to
affect Lord Fawn. Could a man be justified in marrying for money, or
have rational ground for expecting that he might make himself happy
by doing so? He kept muttering to himself as he went, the Quaker's
advice to the old farmer, "Doan't thou marry for munny, but goa where
munny is!" But he muttered it as condemning the advice rather than
accepting it.

He could look out and see two altogether different kinds of life
before him, both of which had their allurements. There was the
Belgravia-cum-Pimlico life, the scene of which might extend itself
to South Kensington, enveloping the parks and coming round over
Park Lane, and through Grosvenor Square and Berkeley Square back
to Piccadilly. Within this he might live with lords and countesses
and rich folk generally, going out to the very best dinner-parties,
avoiding stupid people, having everything the world could give,
except a wife and family and home of his own. All this he could
achieve by the work which would certainly fall in his way, and by
means of that position in the world which he had already attained by
his wits. And the wife, with the family and house of his own, might
be forthcom