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It might well be that such a man as Trevelyan
might think that a clever rising barrister would be an excellent
husband for his sister-in-law, but that a man who earned a precarious
living as a writer for a penny paper would be by no means so
desirable a connection. Stanbury, as he thought of this, declared
to himself that he would not care two straws for Trevelyan in the
matter, if he could see his way without other impediments. But the
other impediments were there in such strength and numbers as to
make him feel that it could not have been intended by Fate that he
should take to himself a wife. Although those letters of his to
the Daily Record had been so pre-eminently successful, he had never
yet been able to earn by writing above twenty-five or thirty pounds
a month. If that might be continued to him he could live upon it
himself; but, even with his moderate views, it would not suffice
for himself and family.
He had told Trevelyan that while living as an expectant barrister
he had no means of subsistence.


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