Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying? / Why, what heiress have you picked up? asked his sister. I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present.

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Lie number one, said the old man; I never saw either of them until two months ago, and I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!

His wife was Lucina Singh, a Third Gen Indo-Asian with a hugely bad attitude, who acted as the ship's navigator.