[The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Golden Fleece CHAPTER VIII 12/15
He loves you and would only love you the more for your frankness in confessing what you seem to consider a discreditable episode: though I for my part am free to tell you that you will be lucky if your future life affords you the opportunity of doing anything else so much to your credit.
But the chances are that he will find it out sooner or later; and that may not be so agreeable, either to him or to you.
Better tell him all now." But Grace pictured to herself the aristocratic pride of an hidalgo shocked by the suggestion of the plebeianism of trade; and she would not consent to the revelation.
But the general's prediction was fulfilled sooner than might have been expected. For, after they were married, Don Miguel decided to visit the Atlantic coast on the wedding journey; and one of the first notable places they reached was, of course, New York.
Don Miguel was delighted, and was never weary of strolling up Fifth Avenue and down Broadway, with his beautiful wife on his arm.
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