20/35 Then, I know him but slightly. I naturally demand additional information. "He is poor; that is his crime, which he has not disguised. How differently we think! I have some fortune; its only advantage that I can see is that it makes me free to marry the man I esteem, though he be poor." "And perhaps a little because of that very reason," interrupted M. "Come, I entreat you, let me explain the anxieties arising from my miserable good sense. |