You've no income at all; you're just living on your mother, and I'm afraid she's not very well off. How can you suppose that I shall give my girl to you?" Felix still looked at him but did not dare to contradict a single statement made. Yet when the man told him that he had not a brass farthing he thought of his own thousand pounds which were now in the man's pocket. "You're a baronet, and that's about all, you know," continued Melmotte. "The Carbury property, which is a very small thing, belongs to a distant cousin who may leave it to me if he pleases;--and who isn't very much older than you are yourself."
"Oh, come, Mr. Melmotte; he's a great deal older than me."

You're just living on your mother, and she's not well off. How can you suppose that I shall give my girl to you?"
Felix did not dare to contradict him. Yet when the man told him that he had not a brass farthing he thought of his thousand pounds which were now in the man's pocket.
"You're a baronet, and that's about all," said Melmotte. "The Carbury property, which is a very small thing, belongs to a distant cousin who may leave it however he pleases; and who isn't much older than you are yourself."
"Oh, come, Mr. Melmotte; he's a great deal older than me."
