Were she as poor as she is accounted rich, I should say the same, now that I have sounded the depths of her lovely disposition and the rare culture of a mind which those seven years have enriched beyond what is usual even in women of intellect.

Her money does not influence me in her favor, nor does it weigh with me in my present opinion of her complete fitness for the position you are so eager to give her.

That this will make you happy I know.

Let it hasten your return which cannot be too speedy.
This was the bombshell which had disturbed Carleton Roberts' complacency, bared his own soul to his horrified view, and revealed to him the weakness of his moral nature which he had hitherto considered strong.

For his first impulse was one of recoil, not only from the secret marriage which shut him off from these new hopes, but from his youthful bride as well.