[The Squire of Sandal-Side by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Squire of Sandal-Side CHAPTER VIII 36/59
And you are married.
No entreaties can prevent, and no repentance can avail.
Oh, what a sorrow to darken all the rest of father's and mother's days! What right have you to spoil their lives, in order to give yourself a little pleasure? O Harry! I never knew that you were selfish before." "I deserve all you say, Charley, but I loved Beatrice so much." "Are you sure, even of that excuse? I heard you vow that you loved Eliza Pierson 'so much,' and Fanny Ulloch 'so much,' and Emily Beverley 'so much.' Why did you not come home, and speak to me before it was too late? Why come at all now ?" "Because I want to talk to you about money.
I have sold out." "Sold out? Is there any more bad news? Do you know what father paid for your commission? Do you know how it hampered him to do it? that, in fact, he has never been quite easy about ready money since ?" "I had to sell out.
Did I not tell you that Beatrice could not live in this climate? She was very ill when she returned to Italy.
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