11/32 I'm a man utterly ruined and would cut my throat to-morrow for the sake of my relations, if I cared enough about them. I know my own condition pretty well. I have made a shipwreck of everything, and have now only got to go down among the breakers." "Only you would like to take Lady Glencora with you." "No, by heavens! But sometimes, when I do think about it at all,--which I do as seldom as I can,--it seems to me that I might still become a different fellow if it were possible for me to marry her." "Had you married her when she was free to marry any one and when her money was her own, it might have been so." "I think it would be quite as much so now. If I could get her once, say to Italy, or perhaps to Greece, I think I could treat her well, and live with her quietly. |