[The Lovely Lady by Mary Austin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lovely Lady PART TWO 2/22
Mr.Greenslet thought it couldn't be much worse than Peter's present situation, and the neighbours were sure it wasn't much better.
The minister had a great deal to say of the temptations of a young man in the city, which was afterward invalidated by the city's turning out quite another place than he described it. It was left for Ellen and Mrs.Jim Harvey to make the happy prognostication.
"You can trust Peter," Ada was confident. "But you got to be mighty cute to get in with those city fellows," her husband warned her, "and Peter's so dashed simple; never sees anything except what's right in front of him.
Now a man"-- Jim assumed this estate for himself in the right of being three months married--"has got to look on all sides of a thing." As for Ellen, she hadn't the slightest doubt that Peter was shortly to become immensely wealthy and she was to go up and keep house for him. "There'll be gold chairs in the parlour and real Brussels," she anticipated.
Peter affected to think it unlikely that she could be spared by the highly mythical person who was to carry her off to keep house for himself.
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