'Many a girl who stands higher socially in the world than you would gladly bear my name.

I might have married Governor Storey's daughter, at Saratoga, last summer.

She threw herself at my head, but one thought of you was enough to keep me from her.

You cannot be in earnest.' 'But I am.

I care nothing for your money, which may or may not be yours.
I do not love you, Tom; and without love I would not marry a prince.' It was very hard for Tom to believe that Jerrie really meant to refuse him, Tom Tracy, who with all his love for her--and he did love her as well as he was capable of loving any one--still felt that he was stooping a little, or at least was honoring her greatly when he asked her to be his wife.