[Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham]@TWC D-Link bookHyacinth CHAPTER XX 4/19
But so far as you personally are concerned, Conneally, I cannot regard it as an unmixed misfortune.
You were meant for something better, if I may say so, than selling blankets.
Now, I have a plan for your future, which I talked over last week with an old friend of yours.
Now that something has been settled about the Quinns, we must all give our minds to your affairs.' Then Hyacinth understood that Canon Beecher expected to be consulted about his future plans, and even had some scheme of his own in mind. 'Yes,' he replied, 'I shall be very glad of your help and advice, although I think I have decided about what I am going to do.
It was not on that subject I came to speak to you to-day, but on another, more important, I think, for you and for me and for Marion.' 'For Marion ?' 'I ought to tell you at once that I love your daughter Marion, and I am sure that she loves me.
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