Part 25 (2/2)
”But I haven't got thewas out with the truth at last ”What would we live on? My salary is only seventy-five hundred dollars If I get the Attorney-Generalshi+p it'll be only eight thousand, and I've not got twenty thousand dollars besides As long as I' at the law All the clients that pay well are clients I'd not dare have anything to do with--I may have to prosecute the, and I used to rave against office-holders fattening on the people I was crazy How's a ht thousand a year? It can't be done”
”And you used to rave against living like a gentle reddened ”There it is!” he fairly shouted ”I' allwith swell people and trying toforyour taste for to surlily and stubbornly ”I'll tell you what I'irl to-day and put the whole case before her And I want you to backof the sort,” cried Grant ”How can you ask such a thing of ME?”
”Yes, you arden-party at the British E there, are you? U ate like a ditch-digger--his own breakfast and arette, sat regarding the full-aret see in this ht Grant ”True, she doesn't know hih Talk about woot ostrich sto thickly, so stuffed was his mouth, ”I think your refined wo but refined woot an ostrich stomach
I've seen you quite pleased oer on Yet most people'd say you were more sensitive than I Instead, you're , paltry non-essentials You strain at a gnat and s a caaret had penetrated the fact that your coarseness is in-bred whileat the bottoood deal like a woar upon hiot him out of the room and on the way out of the house as quickly as possible ”Insufferable egotist!” hekick ”Why do I like him? damned if I believe I do!”
He did not dress until late that afternoon, but lay in his rooms, very low and arden-party--and i in wait for hi hiaret wants to talk with you I ” And before either could speak he had darted away, plowing his way rudely through the crowd
Margaret and Grant watched his progress--she saret
”In a way, yes,” conceded Arkwright ”He has a certain sort of ,” said he, ”I apologized to hiain”
”I don't aret ”It's quite harloomy triumph ”You can't care for me because you think me harmless”
”Well, aren't you?”
”Yes,” he adive anybody--at least, not a blase Washi+ngton society girl--anything approaching a sensation I understand the aret, with a queer expression in her eyes ”I wish I did”
Grant reflected upon this, couldof it ”I don't believe you're really in love with him,” he finally said
”Was that what you told him you wished to talk to me about?”
”I didn't tell him I wanted to talk with you,” protested Grant ”He asked me to try to persuade you not to marry him”
”Well--persuade!”
”To explain how coarse he is”
”How coarse is he?”
”To dilate on the folly of youra poor man with no money prospects”
”I'h hiht thousand a year? Your dresses cost much more than that”