6/15 Money and its uses had impressed her; the quantity possessed by some, the utter need of it for the first of human purposes by others. Her speech was not of so halting or foreign an English. She grew rapidly wherever she was planted. He pursued it, and listened to his father similarly at work: 'A young lady fit for any station, the kindest of souls, a born charitable human creature, void of pride, near in all she--does and thinks to the Shaping Hand, why should her husband forsake her on the day of their nuptials. Can you imagine the doing of an injury by a man to a woman like her ?' Then it was that Gower screwed himself to say: 'Yes, I can imagine it, I'm doing it myself. |