the foundations for a library by purchasingpurchasefrom a wandering bibliophile first editions of Swinburne , Meredith , and Hardy , and a yellowed illegible autograph letter of Keats 's , finding later that he had been amazingly overchargedovercharge.
Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot , he had purchasedpurchaseindependence by unitingunitehimself to a rich woman of inferior birth .