Leaving everything else out of the question, it is out of your power to say anything on account of the money which you will lose by her marriage with him.

You know what she might think." "Curse the money!" Burr cried out.

"Curse the money and the position and all the damned lot of bubbles that come between a man and what's worth more, and will last!" "Burr, don't talk so!" "I can't help it, mother.

I mean it.

Curse it, I say, and the infernal weakness that makes a man see double on women's faces when there's only one woman in his heart! Mother, why didn't you know about that last, so you could tell me when I was a boy ?" His mother colored a little.