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The Children of the King

CHAPTER XI
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Money and a good disposition.

You have both, between you, and you will be happy." "I never heard anything more despicable!" cried the young girl.

"Money and disposition! And what becomes of the heart ?" The Marchesa smiled and fanned herself.
"Young girls without experience cannot understand these things," she said.

"Wait till you are older." "And lose what looks I have and the power to enjoy anything! And you say that you are not forcing me into this marriage! And you try to think, or to make me think, that it is all for the best, and all delightful and all easy, when you are sacrificing me and my youth and my life and my happiness to the mere idea of a better position in society--because poor papa was a sulphur merchant and bought a title which was only confirmed because he spent a million on a public charity--and every one knows it--and the Count of San Miniato comes of people who have been high and mighty gentlemen for six or seven hundred years, more or less.

That is your point of view, and you know it.


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