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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you. I told him I should not do it; that what money would come to you would come at my death, and not before. And then ? repeated Margaret, in a low, apathetical sort of voice? what did he say then ? Then he stiffly rose, said the proposal he had hoped to make on behalf of his son must remain unmade, and so marched out. They are a proud, stuck-up set, Margaret: we are better off without them. Yes. Perhaps we are. You do not regret it, child ? he added, a shade of anxiety visible in his voice. Papa, I do not regret Captain Hoare. I do not really care for him. CHAPTER III. UEGRETS. It was i foggy day in November, sixteen or seventeen months subsequent to the above events. The dusk of evening was drawing on, and Margaret Chan- ning sat in front of a large fire, her eyes fixed dreamily on the red coals. What did she see in them ? Was she tracing out the fatal mistake shehad made ? She had been a sadder and a wiser girl since then. Never but once since had she seen Adam Grainger; and that was at the house of a mutual friend. He had addressed her in a more freezingly polite tone than he would have used to greet a stranger, and in a few minutes quitted the house, although he had gone to it with the intention of staying for the evening. It is probable he was aware that money matters had been the stumbling-block to her proposed union with Captain Hoare, since the facts had become known at the time. Margaret despised herself thoroughly for the despicable part she had played. She was endowed with sound sense and good feeling, and she now believed that a species of mania must have come over her. But she had reaped her punishment: for her heart's sunshine had gone out with Adam Grainger. A circumstance had this day caused her mind to revert more p...
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