For the love he bore her he had served longer than Jacob served for Rachel, and the time had not appeared long.

The suggestion that the money he had striven for from youth to age should go to some reprobate foreigner, to pay his gambling-debts, nearly threw him into a convulsion.

His ancestors had been driven from home to starve in the wilderness by such creatures.

"Before any d----d foreign reprobate should have a dollar of his money he would endow a lunatic asylum with it." So Mrs.Yorke prudently refrained from pressing this subject any further at this time, and built her hopes on securing the next most advantageous alliance--a wealthy one.

She preferred Norman Wentworth to any of the other young men, for he was not only rich, but the Wentworths were an old and established house, and Mrs.Wentworth was one of the old aristocrats of the State, whose word was law above that of even the wealthiest of the new leaders.