[Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookLaddie CHAPTER XIV 46/62
And as a husband, I can offer your daughter as loving consideration as woman ever received at the hands of man. Provided by some miracle I could win her consent, would you even consider me, and such an arrangement ?" "Frankly sir," said Mr.Pryor, "I have reached the place where I would be----" whenever you come to a long black line like that, it means that he just roared a lot of words father never said, and never will--"glad to! To tell the truth, the thing you choose to jestingly refer to as 'tinware'-- I hope later to convince of the indelicacy of such allusion--would place you in England on a social level above any we ever occupied, or could hope to.
Your education equals ours.
You are a physical specimen to be reckoned with, and I believe what you say of yourself.
There's something so clean and manly about you, it amounts to confirmation.
A woman should set her own valuation on that; and the height of it should correspond with her knowledge of the world." "Thank you!" said Laddie.
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