The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'It cannot, I hope, madam,' was his reply, 'be thought of me, that I should not desire greatly to make them happy.--Since you are acquainted with what has taken place, you will do me the justice to admit, that I could do nothing more expressive of the regard I entertain for my nephew, and of the esteem in which I hold his mother, than by offering him my only child in marriage, and with such a dowry, too, as no one in his situation could almost presume to expect.'