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. 1902 Excerpt: ...very reason that it would be really un mariage de eonvenance to me, I would not listen for a moment to any such proposal from the new master of Kilorgan!--No! no! low as she has fallen in point of fortune, Margaret Fitzgerald has not fallen, and with God's help never will fall so low as to sell herself and her womanly ...
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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. 1902 Excerpt: ...very reason that it would be really un mariage de eonvenance to me, I would not listen for a moment to any such proposal from the new master of Kilorgan!--No! no! low as she has fallen in point of fortune, Margaret Fitzgerald has not fallen, and with God's help never will fall so low as to sell herself and her womanly pride for a home or a position. Were I to forget so far the blood that is in my veins, I am very sure that neither my uncle nor aunt would accept such a sacrifice." "Then you would not marry my cousin, were he agreeable to you in other respects, simply because he has bought Kilorgan?" "Not because he has bought it"--she said with emphasis, --" understand me, Mr. Howard, once for all!--I owe your cousin no ill will for having acquired a property which once was mine; but being the owner of it, I would not marry him were he to ask me tomorrow, and that frr the simple reason that it would be contrary to my notions of self-respect. But really it is too absurd to talk seriously on such a subject," she laughingly added, --" I am sure you did but jest." "Upon my honor, I was serious!" "At which I cannot but wonder, Mr. Howard! your cousin has as little reason to be obliged to you as--as I have." Then she added with a sweet seriousness, her humid eyes resting on the pale fair planet whose faint light gave a more tender carm to her face, --" The marriage tie is not lightly to be spoken of, --if it be, as it ought to be, the union of two hearts for weal or woe, for all the years of one life, at least!" We were again silent; I was thinking of Margaret of Branksome--"Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star,"--and wondering whether Margaret Fitzgeral...
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