Doris's fortune - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.18?? Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. EAR your blushing honours meekly, old fellow. You are the hero of the hour." "Let us get away somewhere out of the crowd, away from everybody," said the other man quietly, « but with some impatience in his particularly sweet and gentle 2 voice. "Not so easy, in town on a May afternoon! Let us go to sV the Park; and there, if the sight of your baking fellowV creatures doesn't tempt you to join the solemn throng, we'll go and hide ourselves among the trees and moralise." The Park! That is just the place to meet everybody." Then why not meet them all at once and get the ordeal over? Face the congratulations of your defeated rivals like a man. One would think you were ashamed of your victory." "So I am rather." '. "Ashamed of carrying off the prettiest, wittiest, richest; girl in London, the only good-looking heiress that ever was i born, whom all the penniless bachelors I know worshipped from afar, and all those who were running through their own frsinoney looked upon as the hoped-for support of their declining. years!" "That is just where it is; it is rather awkward to be marrying a girl so much better off than oneself. It is not as if I OS had expectations, or any hope of making money myself some day. I ought to have been content to worship her from afar like the rest." "But, my dear fellow, she wouldn't let you. You are unreasonable; you let strained sentiment carry you too far. Let us get into this hansom and argue the point." They both got into the hansom; and, as they were slowly driven in the block of vehicles of all kinds along crowded Piccadilly, the younger man continued his argument. "I look upon you as the one solitary case of merit rewarded which restores my faith in a discriminating Providence. The very first time Miss Edgcomb...