[Phantom Fortune, A Novel by M. E. Braddon]@TWC D-Link bookPhantom Fortune, A Novel CHAPTER X 31/38
Besides, we should not always be poor.
I tell you I am predestined to conquer fate.' 'But we should have to begin from the beginning.' 'Yes, we should have to begin from the beginning, as Adam and Eve did when they left Paradise.' 'We are not told in the Bible that they had any happiness after that.
It seems to have been all trouble and weariness, and toil and death, after the angel with the flaming sword drove them out of Eden.' 'They were together, and they must have been happy.
Oh, Lesbia, if you do not feel that you can face poverty and the world's contempt by my side, and for my sake, you do not love me.
Love never calculates so nicely; love never fears the future; and yet you do love me, Lesbia,' he said, trying to fold her in his arms; but again she drew herself away from him--this time with a look almost of horror--and stood facing him, clinging to one of the pine trunks, like a scared wood-nymph. 'You have no right to say that,' she said. 'I have the divine right of my own deep love--of heart which cries out to heart.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|