Part 30 (1/2)
”Yes, I hardly think there are any of them who would care to cultivate a refined nature, even if they had the opportunity.”
”Have you any faith in their fortune telling?”
Scott laughed as he answered: ”Oh, no; though I had my fortune told by an old gypsy once, but have hardly thought of it since.”
”Has any of it come true?”
”Well, really, I have not noticed. Let me see--why yes, I do not know but there has a part of it come to pa.s.s.”
”Then she must have known.”
”No, I think she guessed at it.”
”How could she?”
”Easy enough.”
”What did she tell you?”
”That my parents were both living and that I had never soiled my hands with work.”
”Was it true?”
”Yes.”
”Was that all?”
”No, she said that I would marry a beautiful woman.”
”And so you did,” said Carrie, thoughtlessly. ”And is that all?”
”She said there were tears for me, and that I would commit a crime.”
”Mercy!” said Carrie, starting.
”Do not get excited, Miss Horton, I a.s.sure you I have not the least intention of making good her prophecy,” Scott said, smiling.
”No, I do not think you have, but--”
”But what?”
”If you should happen to.”
”I do not think it will ever happen.”
”How long ago was it that you had your fortune told?”
”Oh, several years ago. I merely had it told to please my curiosity. I have hardly thought of it since.”
”It seems strange that any of it should come true if she did not know what it was.”