"What engagements? What the devil do you mean? You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d---- fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? You've not come here for to make me suppose that he wants to marry HER? Marry HER, that IS a good one. My son and heir marry a beggar's girl out of a gutter. D---- him, if he does, let him buy a broom and sweep a crossing. She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father."

"What engagements? What the devil do you mean?" Mr. Osborne continued, with gathering wrath. "You don't mean that he's still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? You've not come here to make me suppose that he wants to marry her. My son and heir marry a beggar's girl out of a gutter! D___ him - if he does, let him buy a broom and sweep a crossing. She was always dangling after him; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father."
