“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.”
“No—what should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?”
“But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event.”
“A
“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.”
“No—what should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?”
“But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event.”
“A
