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 a rich uncle who said that on the day of your wedding he would make over to you fifty thousand in Government three per cents. Hard, wasn't it? Suppose that you were earning about two thousand a year, and that the struggle to keep up smart appearances was a keen one. Wouldn't you have been eager to marry, especially the girl you loved? A man can not buy flowers twice a week, dine before and take supper after the theater twice a week, belong (and pay dues and house-accounts) to a country club, a town club and keep respectable bachelor apartments on two thousand and save anything. And suppose the girl was independently rich. Heigh-ho!