The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'You do not speak,' said his uncle, and he added, softly and inquisitively, 'Is there any cause to make you averse to Robina?--I trust I may say to you, as a young man of discretion and good sense, that there is no green and foolish affection which ought for a moment to weigh with you against the advantages of a marriage with your cousin--Were there nothing else held out to you, the very circumstance of regaining so easily the patrimony, which your father had so inconsiderately forfeited, should of itself be sufficient.