[Missing by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookMissing CHAPTER II 21/37
Still the words had rankled. 'Darling!--when I made you marry me--_did_ I do you an injury ?' he said suddenly, as they were walking again hand in hand along the high green path with the lake at their feet, and a vision of blue and rose before them, in the shadowed western mountains, the lower grounds steeped in fiery light, and the red reflections in the still water. 'What _do_ you mean ?' said Nelly, turning upon him a face of wonder. 'Well, that was what Bridget said to me, when I told her that you had accepted me.
But I was a great fool to tell you, darling! I'm sorry I did.
It was only--' '"Injury,"' repeated Nelly, not listening to him.
'Oh, yes, of course that was money.
Bridget says it's all nonsense talking about honour, or love, or that kind of thing.
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