.

Look here again, there's a golden cup! I bought that of one that was out with Pizarro in Peru.

And look here, again!"-- and the old man gloated over the treasure.
"And whom do you think I kept all these for?
These were for her wedding-day--for her wedding-day.

For your wedding-day, if you'd been minded, sir! Yes, yours, sir! And yet, I believe, I was so ambitious that I would not have let her marry under an earl, all the while I was pretending to be too proud to throw her at the head of a squire's son.
Ah, well! There was my idol, sir.

I made her mad, I pampered her up with gewgaws and vanity; and then, because my idol was just what I had made her, I turned again and rent her.
"And now," said he, pointing to the open chest, "that was what I meant; and that" (pointing to the empty bed) "was what God meant.