text:  Young accomplished and exceeding beautiful would she not expect did she not deserve a union with youth and virtues equal to her own? Was it not madness to suppose that she would shower such happiness on him? Was he not over bold and arrogant to hope it? Aware of his disadvantage and rendered miserable by the thought of losing her in consequence he had been tempted once or twice to communicate to Margaret the amount of wealth that he possessed; but here too his reluctant tongue grew ever dumb as he approached the dangerous topic