His Grace — page 284: what you’re looking at

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278 HIS GRACE. give me the company of a man whom I admire and esteem. As for the children—well, I havea large house, and I do not intend to surrender the control .of my money toanybody. I needn’t say that, at Mr. Burgess’s time of life and mine, we aren’t such idiots as to talk about marrying for love; he assures me that he never was really enamored of your sister, and, to tell you the truth, I shouldn’t have cared a straw if he had been. As you know, there was a man once upon a time for whom I did care—and who was not worth caring for. I have forgiven him now. One forgives, let me tell you, Mr. Martyn, chiefly because one forgets, and one forgets because one can’t help it.” “It is a pity,” I made so bold as to remark, “ that you couldn’t manage to EEE and forget Lord Charles Gascoigne a little sooner.’ “IT can understand your thinking so; Sink I did no more than I felt bound to do, and I saat see that much harm has come of it. Itis true that although one forgets most things, there are one or two which can’t be for- gotten, and I suspect that, if your young duke lives to be twice my age, he will never succeed in forgetting altogether what his father was. So, if I had a grudge against him, I daresay we may cry quits.” There is no denying that Lady Deverell is a singu- larly disagreeable old woman. THE END. EOMmIchboo (@) cS (Elo)