12/24 She married me because she thought me a rich English milord. Now she has run through my property, or most of it, and gone. Luckily, she did not care to encumber her new career with the child; Stella is left to me." "That is what comes of marrying a papist, Carson," said my father. That was his fault; he was as good and charitable a man as ever lived, but he was bigoted. |