'She will have a hundred thousand pounds.'
'You don't mean that!' said Lord Valentine; 'and she is a very nice
girl, too.'
'You are quite wrong about the hundred thousand, Fitz,' said Lord
Milford; 'for I made it my business to inquire most particularly into
the affair: it is only fifty.'
'In these cases, the best rule is only to believe half,' said Mr.
Ormsby.
'Then you have only got twenty thousand a-year, Ormsby,' said Lord
Milford, laughing, 'because the world gives you forty.'
'Well, we must do the best we can in these hard times,' said Mr. Ormsby,
with an air of mock resignation. 'With your Dukes of Bellamont and all
these grandees on the stage, we little men shall be scarcely able to
hold up our heads.'
'Come, Ormsby,' said Lord Milford; 'tell us the amount of your income
tax.'
'They say Sir Robert quite blushed when he saw the figure at which you
were sacked, and declared it was downright spoliation.'
'You young men are always talking about money,' said Mr. Ormsby, shaking
his head; 'you should think of higher things.'
'I wonder what young Montacute will be thinking of this time next year,'
said Lord Fitz-Heron.
'There will be plenty of people thinking of him,' said Mr. Cassilis.
'Egad! you gentlemen must stir yourselves, if you mean to be turned off.
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