 
 <prompt> text: ```CHAPTER VIII 

D'AGUILAR TALK 

"D'aguilar, wetin you dey yan about?" D'aguilar ask. "Abi na the wealthy John Castell, wey dey control half of the trade with Spain, dey talk about losses?" 

"Yes, Señor, na so e be. Things don spoil for my ship wey just survive the spring gales. But sit down." 

"Ehn, na true?" D'aguilar talk as e sit down. "Rumour dey lie well well o! Because dem tell me say things dey go well. But wetin be loss for you fit be big gain for person like me." 

Castell no talk anything, but e wait, dey feel say hin visitor no come talk about trading ventures. 

"Señor Castell," D'aguilar talk, with small fear for hin voice, "I dey here to ask you for something." 

"If na loan, Señor, I dey fear say the time no dey right." E nod towards the sheet of figures. 

"E no be loan; na gift." 

"Anything for my small house na your own," Castell answer politely, for Oriental form. 

"I dey happy to hear am, Señor, because I dey find something for your house." 

Castell look am with hin sharp black eyes. 

"I dey find your daughter, the Señora Margaret, make I marry am." 

Castell look am, then one word escape from hin mouth. 

"Impossible." 

"Why e dey impossible?" D'aguilar ask slowly, but as person wey expect that kind answer. "We no too far for age, and maybe for fortune too, while for rank I get enough, pass wetin you fit think. I no dey boast, but women don see me as fine person. I go dey good friend to the house wey I go marry from, where maybe one day we go need friends; and lastly, I no want am because of wetin she fit bring come, even though money dey always welcome, but--I beg you believe am--because I love am." 

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Wetin the rich man dey yan about?
2. Wetin be hin name?
3. Who hin dey do business with?
4. Wetin be the name of the ship wey dey give am wahala?
5. Who dey yan with am about all these things?
6. E remain stand?
7. E admit say e know about the other man wahala?
8. How e take hear say business dey go?
9. The rich man respond immediately?
10. The person wey dey question am, calm?
11. E want make the rich man borrow am something?
12. Wetin e ask for?
13. Castell talk yes?
14. How e describe the possibility of am happening?
15. Dem age no match?
16. The suitor rank too low?
17. E admit say e want am for her money?
18. Why e talk say e want marriage? 

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. Losses
2. John Castell
3. Spain
4. Im Ship.
5. d'Aguilar.
6. No.
7. No.
8. E good well.
9. No.
10. Nervous.
11. No.
12. To marry im daughter.
13. No.
14. "Impossible."
15. No.
16. No.
17. No.
18. Because e love am.``` 