[Marion Arleigh’s Penance by Charlotte M. Braeme]@TWC D-Link bookMarion Arleigh’s Penance CHAPTER IV 5/11
That is why I did not care to tell you my trouble.
Why should you--so rich, so happy, so beautiful--why should you interest yourself in the fate of people like us? My brother is a genius, not a lord." "I wish," cried the girl, impatiently, "that you would not be always talking to me about my riches.
I cannot help them.
You make me wretched. It is not because I am rich that I hesitate--how absurd you are, Adelaide!--but because your brother is a stranger to me, and I have no right to interfere in his life." "Is that all? I fancied you considered him so far beneath you.
Genius is Godlike, but it is not money.
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