I never spoke of my expectations, I never alluded to my present advantages yet I won her.
"We were married, there, in Troy in the quietest and most unpretending manner.

Why the fact has never transpired I cannot say.

I certainly took no especial pains to conceal it at the time, though I acknowledge that after our separation I did resort to such measures as I thought necessary, to suppress what had become gall and wormwood to my pride.
"My first move after the ceremony was to bring her immediately to New York and to this house.

With perhaps a pardonable bitterness of spirit, I had refrained from any notification of my intentions, and it was as strangers might enter an unprepared dwelling, that we stepped across the threshold of this house and passed immediately to my father's room.
"'I can give you no wedding and no honeymoon,' I had told her.

'My father is dying and demands my care.