[From the Housetops by George Barr McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookFrom the Housetops CHAPTER VI 36/57
I suppose you will hate me to the end of your days.
But if you think that I expect to hate myself, you are very much mistaken.
Look! Do you see these pearls? They were not included in the bargain, and I could have gone on very well without them to the end of my term as the mistress of this house, but I accepted them from my fiance to-day in precisely the same spirit in which they were given: as alms to the undeserving.
Your grandfather did not want me to marry you.
He is merely paying me to keep my hands _off_.
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