Her Own People (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Her Own People "Oh yes! I know what it is to be hard up myself! I´m hard up now! - but I´ll help you in another way. You must marry, Malcolm, my boy! Leave it to me, and I´ll find you a rich wife!" In making the foregoing boastful promise, Sir Horace Haig raised a naturally harsh voice, and all but shouted his officious announcement. The empty air seemed to echo the words, "rich wife" - "rich wife," their regular measured tread to repeat, "rich wife" - "rich wife," as the two men, uncle and nephew, hurried down a by-street in Homburg. There was good reason for haste, a neighbouring clock was chiming the hour, and already they were unfashionably late for the morning ceremonies at the Elisabeth Brunnen. "But - " began the prospective Benedict, in a doubtful tone. "My grandfather used to say," interrupted his uncle, in a loud authoritative key, "that a man should marry young, and marry often. He had four wives!" "And you, sir, have not had one!" rejoined his companion, with unexpected audacity. "Oh - ah - well, yes - that is true - but the fact is, I had an unhappy love affair - (a fiction invented on the spot) - a - a - blighted life - a blighted life!! - it is a - a painful subject." Here Sir Horace suddenly turned into a narrow footpath, where, as it was necessary to walk in single file, awkward questions were evaded, or postponed. The subject of "a blighted life" was a spruce, straight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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