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He Knew He Was Right

CHAPTER I
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No man could be more independent or more clearly justified in pleasing himself than was this lover.

And then he himself proposed that the second daughter, Nora, should come and live with them in London.

What a lover to fall suddenly from the heavens into such a dovecote! "I haven't a penny-piece to give to either of them," said Sir Rowley.
"It is my idea that girls should not have fortunes," said Trevelyan.
"At any rate, I am quite sure that men should never look for money.
A man must be more comfortable, and, I think, is likely to be more affectionate, when the money has belonged to himself." Sir Rowley was a high-minded gentleman, who would have liked to have handed over a few thousand pounds on giving up his daughters; but, having no thousands of pounds to hand over, he could not but admire the principles of his proposed son-in-law.

As it was about time for him to have his leave of absence, he and sundry of the girls went to England with Mr.Trevelyan, and the wedding was celebrated in London by the Rev.Oliphant Outhouse, of Saint Diddulph-in-the-East, who had married Sir Rowley's sister.

Then a small house was taken and furnished in Curzon Street, Mayfair, and the Rowleys went back to the seat of their government, leaving Nora, the second girl, in charge of her elder sister.
The Rowleys had found, on reaching London, that they had lighted upon a pearl indeed.


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