A Struggle for a Ring — page 13: what you’re looking at

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\ A STRUGGLE FOR A RING. CHAPTER I. YOUNG WOMEN NOT ADMITTED. ‘‘Oh, God, Iam so young, so young ; I am not used to balls at night Instead of slumber—nor to prayer With sobbing lips and hands outwrung.”’ E. B. BROWNING. The head and front of his offense—the beginning and end of his wrong-doing—-the one mistake of his life-time was—that he married her, He, Lord Vivian Carsdale, only son and heir of the Earl of Waldrove, married Alice Derwent, the daughter of John Derwent, dancing-master by profession—married her with far less thought than he would have bestowed on choosing a hunter or a hound— married her from a good, honest, honorable, mistaken impulse, yielding to the weakness of his character which made him look always for the easiest way out of a diffi- culty, and sacrifice the future to present ease. It happened in this way: Lord Vivian Carsdale had gone through the usual routine of English education; he ~ ~ had been to Eton and Oxford; he had made the grand tour; but even then his father, the Earl of Waldrove, was comicboo KS.