This put her affection out of suspicion of mercenary ends, and showed that she loved, but not for gain;and that her professions, the less ostentatious they were, had so much the more of truth and sincerity than her sisters'.
Think no unfair evil of her, pray: she had no wicked plots, nothing sordid or mercenary; in fact, she never thought of money except as something necessary which other people would always provide.
Twice he had spent the night in a station-house; again and again he had found himself the dupe of ingenious and mercenary tricksters; his watch and money had been the price of one flattering allurement.
I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary." " Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?