'Rome was not built in a day, and we have lots of money at our backs, though we don't cut much dash yet in offices. Pray sit down, and let me have your letter.'
Raffles was one of them, and I would gladly have been another, had not the footman chosen this moment to hurl me from him, and to make a dash in the direction from which they had come.
My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you m<>an class="key">ake a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.