The Illegal Marriage — page 84: what you’re looking at

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76 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. must not oppose him in this matter. You are both very young yet, and can afford to wait.” “T will take your advice, doctor.” “Let me bring Mrs. Trippe over to-morrow, and tell her your trouble. Only a woman can sympa- thize with you, I know, but we doctors know more of the female heart than you imagine.” Trippe listened to her thanks for this suggestion, and rode away, feeling confident that she would keep her word, and that, for the present, there would be nothing to fear; but he had no hopes for Morgan’s life or reason. That very day Cecy wrote to her lover more freely of her position than she had ever done before, and told him that, for her father’s sake, they must wait until there was some change in him. She did not despair, she wrote, of yet bringing him to an ap- proval of their union; but until that time came she should have to aissemble, and to disguise the love that she would one day give him freely. In reply to this, Guerry proposed an immediate marriage, urging that her father would become reconciled to the matter when he found that it was beyond recall. Cecy was shocked at his words, but blinded to his faults, she attributed his haste to excessive love for her. “Poor fellow,” she said, while reading his letter, “everybody seems against him because he is to marry me. Unless they can say something posi- tive they need not speak to me of him. They can only hint—oh, how I hate such hints! They dare not speak outright, for they know that to speak at all would be to speak in his praise.” , She was obliged to refuse his request, and again begged him to be patient for a time. + comicboo cS (Ele)