"It is a pity you should do nothing all your life," his cousin Plantagenet said to him one morning just at this time. Jeffrey had sought the interview in his cousin's room, and I fear had done so with some slight request for ready money.
"What am I to do?" said Jeffrey.
"At any rate you might marry."
"Oh, yes;--I could marry. There's no man so poor but what he can do that. The question would be how I might like the subsequent starvation."
"I don't see that you need starve. Though your own fortune is small, it is something,--and many girls have fortunes of their own."

"It is a pity you should do nothing all your life," his cousin Plantagenet said to him one morning at this time. Jeffrey had sought the interview, I fear with a request for ready money.
"What am I to do?" said Jeffrey.
"At any rate you might marry."
"Oh, yes; I could marry. The question would be how I might like the subsequent starvation."
"I don't see that you need starve. Though your own fortune is small, it is something, and many girls have fortunes of their own."
