Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 95: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

86 “IT CANNOT MARRY YOU.” ‘‘So,’? he concluded, ‘‘I will only wish you all the good things of this life. Good-by.’’ And with these words, he hurriedly left the room. It was snowing, as he walked up the street, and freezing hard, but he did not notice the weather. There was a numbness in his whole body which was not caused by the cold. Heavy at heart, and with thoughts which accorded well with the gloominess of the evening, he made his way to his apartments. ‘Gomicbookssco