[In Luck at Last by Walter Besant]@TWC D-Link book
In Luck at Last

CHAPTER VIII
37/47

Think that you have given it to me." "Oh, the fortune may go," she said.

"The future is ours, and we are young.

But who shall console my grandfather in his old age for his bankruptcy ?" "As the stream," said Lala Roy, "which passeth from the mountains to the ocean, kisseth every meadow on its way, yet tarries not in any place, so Fortune visits the sons of men; she is unstable as the wind; who shall hold her?
Let not adversity tear off the wings of hope." They could do nothing more.

Arnold replaced the paper in the packet, and gave it to Iris; they put back the ledgers and account-books in the safe, and locked it up, and then they went upstairs.
"You shall go to bed, Iris," said Arnold, "and you, too, Lala Roy.

I shall stay here, in case Mr.Emblem should--should want anything." He was, in reality, afraid that "something would happen" to the old man.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books