I Forbid the Banns! — page 115: what you’re looking at

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ON THE VOICE THAT BREATHED O'ER EDEN. 105 what you hope to have in the future; some of the good people aboard seem to know all about it, however. They Say something about twelve thousand a year.” “That is the exact sum, only that I allow my aunt a thousand a year, and pay her traveling expenses, and buy her her bonnets. I do not know how to spend more than about the same amount myself, though I do my best to be extravagant. I hope I shall learn to spend the other eight or ten thousand in England.” “Jt is a fascinating branch of education, Bertha.” “You shall teach me, my beloved.” “Nothing could possibly give me greater pleasure. But you have actually a larger income than I have : I don’t believe that, even in the years when none of the farms are thrown on our hands, I have more than about seven thou- sand pounds to spend.” ‘“In any case, we should between us be able to keep the wolf from the door.”’ “The wolf ? an entire pack, my dearest.” “Then we need talk no more about money, when there are so many beautiful things to be talked about.” “T agree with you. Then let us talk about the sweet- est subject that exists, Bertha. When are we to be mar- Fred. 2. “When? Ah, Julian, I am ashamed of you! When? Were we not married in spirit the first hour we met—nay, were our souls not wedded from the instant they breathed the same air of this world, just as they were in that past existence of our souls of which we remember nothing ?”’ /, “My dearest!” and he pressed her hand fondly if furtively—“‘ who can doubt, from the mysterious way we met, that we were brought together through the subtle influence of a Power which we can only dimly understand ? We were made for one another, dearest.” CORNIELOOOKS (2)