"You wouldn't mind having it settled?"
"No;--I'd consent to that on condition that the money was paid down, and the income insured to me,--say 7,000 or 8,000 a year. I wouldn't do it for less, mother; it wouldn't be worth while."
"But you have nothing left of your own."
"I've got a throat that I can cut, and brains that I can blow out," said the son, using an argument which he conceived might be efficacious with his mother; though, had she known him, she might have been sure that no man lived less likely to cut his own throat or blow out his own brains.
"Oh, Felix! how brutal it is to speak to me in that way."
"It may be brutal; but you know, mother, business is business. You want me to marry this girl because of her money."
"You want to marry her yourself."

"You wouldn't mind having it settled?"
"No; I'd consent to that if the money was paid down, and the income insured to me - say 7,000 or 8,000 a year. It wouldn't be worth while for less."
"But you have nothing left of your own."
"I've got a throat that I can cut, and brains that I can blow out," said the son, using an argument which he thought might be effective with his mother; though no man lived less likely to cut his own throat.
"Oh, Felix! how brutal."
"It may be brutal; but you know, mother, business is business. You want me to marry this girl because of her money."
"You want to marry her yourself."
