3/15 Should you find anything among them to gratify your taste, I shall of course be honored. But, thank Heaven! I am not as greedy of patronage as I used to be--in fact I intended resigning the profession altogether in about six months or so." "Indeed! Are you coming into a fortune ?" I asked, carelessly. "I am going to marry one--that is almost the same thing, is it not ?" "Precisely! I congratulate you!" I said, in a studiously indifferent and slightly bored tone, though my heart pulsed fiercely with the torrent of wrath pent up within it. I understood his meaning well. In six months he proposed marrying my wife. |