I grant that I should not have spoken to her to-day.

I ask your pardon for what may seem to you insult and thanklessness.

But the thing itself--is it so impossible?
Why is it impossible that I should wed where I love with all my heart ?" He broke a piece of the box beside him and drew it through his hands, then threw it away, and squarely faced the elder man.

"I had my way to make in life.
Well, I am making it fast.

I am making it faster, perhaps, than any other man in the county, be he who he may! I am poor, but I am not so poor as once I was, and I shall be richer yet.