"Some ill-conditioned persons who sneer at the life-matrimonial may perhaps suggest in this place that the good couple would be better likened to two principals in a sparring match who when fortune is low and backers scarce will chivalrously set to for the mere ffpleasure of the buffeting; and in one respect indeed this comparison would hold good; for as the adventurous ftpair of the Fives' Court will afterwards send round a hat and trust to the bounty of the lookers-on for the means of regaling themselves so Mr. Godfrey Nickleby and his partner the honeymoon being over looked out wistfully into the world relying in no inconsiderable degree upon chance for the improvement of their means. Mr. Nickleby's income at the period of his marriage flfluctuated between sixty and eighty pounds per annum."