13/30 She is ready to degrade herself and risk her soul by a mercenary marriage sooner than bear that wound to pride!" "Go on!" Kate said, bitterly; "it is well to have one's heart lacerated sometimes, I suppose. Pray go on." "I intend to go on. You have been used to queening it all your life--to being flattered, and indulged, and pampered to the top of your bent, and it will do you good. When you are this man's miserable wife, you shall never say Father Francis might have warned me--Father Francis might have saved me. You have ruled here with a ring and a clatter; you have been pleased to dazzle and bewilder the simple people of St.Croix, to see yourself looked up to as a sort of goddess. |