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"YES," said my uncle, as he warmed himself before the library fire, "a young man of very considerable ability, I think. One might trust old Jonathan Frost to make no mistake about that. He might be led by family feeling-but not led astray! Hard-headed, and ambitious-for himself, I mean, apart from his business, the boy is. He's different from the old man in that; the old man thought of nothing but his undertakings, he was just the most important part of their machinery. This boy's got his eye on politics, he tells me. I've no doubt he'll get on in them. Then, with a suitable wife -- "
"Lady Arabella-or something of that sort?"