You might as well ask me to look for happiness with a grocer." "Not quite," said Arnold.
"It is exactly the same thing.

Pray, have you proposed to this--this young lady of the second-hand bookshop ?" "No, I have not." "You are in love with her, however ?" "I am, Clara." "And you intend to ask her--in the shop, I dare say, among the second-hand books--to become your wife ?" "That is my serious intention, Clara." "Claude did the same thing.

His father remonstrated with him in vain, he took his wife to London, where, for a time, he lived in misery and self-reproach." "Do you know that he reproached himself ?" "I know what must have happened when he found out his mistake.

Then he went to America, where he died, no doubt in despair, although his father had forgiven him." "The cases are hardly parallel," said Arnold.

"Still, will you permit me to introduce Miss Aglen to you, if she should do me the honor of accepting me?
Be generous, Clara.