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`` You may give all to them if you please . '' `` Of course I may , and I dare say I shall , '' said Miss Jack , who was beginning to be irritated . `` But at any rate you might have the civility to listen to me when I am endeavouring to put you on your legs . I am sure I think about nothing else , morning , noon , and night , and yet I never get a decent word from you . Marian is too good for you ; that 's the truth . '' But at length Miss Jack was allowed to open her budget , and to make her proposition ; which amounted to this -- that she had already told Mr. Leslie that she would settle the bulk of her property conjointly on Maurice and Marian if they would make a match of it . Now as Mr. Leslie had long been casting a hankering eye after Miss Jack 's money , with a strong conviction however that Maurice Cumming was her favourite nephew and probable heir , this proposition was not unpalatable .