A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 59: what you’re looking at

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SUSPENSE, 57 consequences. Henry, if I believed our child would live: and recover from the blow, I would consider it a lucky escape. No matter what the man’s-reason for his con- duct may be, it has been so despicable, her happiness could. not safely have been intrusted to him; bat—’’ ** Go on. ”” “*l know Eloise so well, 1 know her peculiarity; she was not one to be easily won; she was not one who stood with her love on her lips to speak it to the first man who appeared possessed of all the superficial requisites. No; she held her love for her ideal; had she never met her ideal, she would never have loved. She believed this man to be her ideal; she gave him her love in good faith, and if this love is crushed out, she may live, but the evidence of life will all be on the surface, within she will be life- less as marble.’’ ** You take too extreme a view of it. She will suffer, no doubt, but in time she will recover and forget. ”’ ** Never. ”” ** ‘Why, some girls are in love a dozen times before they marry. ”’ ‘“* Yes; some girls are, but she is not some girls. She is honest and sincere, possessed of qualities that would make her one of the most loyal of wives, as well as one of the most attractive. Love, to her, is too sacred a senti- ment to be admitted under one smile and dismissed under another. No, no; an explanation will come, and all will be cleared up, or she will bury her sorrow and walk, a lonely woman, through life, until within the grave there shall come what time can never bring—forgetfulness. ”’ comirebooks: com