[A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Perilous Secret CHAPTER IX 36/40
Colonel Clifford said he had every respect for you, but had other views for his son.
Mr.Bartley said he was thankful to hear it, for he looked higher for his daughter.
'Higher in trade, I suppose,' said my father; 'the Lord Mayor's nephew.' 'Well,' said Mr. Bartley, 'I would rather marry her to money than to mortgages.' And the end of it was they parted enemies for life." "No, no; not for life!" "For life, Mary.
It is an old grudge revived.
Indeed, the first quarrel was only skinned over.
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