A Struggle for a Ring — page 353: what you’re looking at

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ADMIRATION IS NOT LOVE. 349 and I have done so ever since; but admiration is not love, is it, Ailie?” ‘“No, indeed,” she replied, with a sudden little smile, ‘‘it is not love, Lord Carsdale.” ‘*No; we both agree there. As I tell you, Ailie, I ad- mired you, and you seemed to me so innocent, so help- less ; and when I spoke to you, you told me that you had so little happiness. The thought that came into my mind was of the great difference between our lives; I had had so much pleasure, you so little, that I longed to put some little happiness in your way. I thought of no more than that at the time—no more.” ‘‘T know it,” said Ailie, gently: ‘‘It was a generous thought ; one that only comes from a generous mind.” ‘I puzzled myself for some little time until I thought of that unfortunate regatta. Now, Ailie, I ought to have had more sense; I ought to have known better than to haverpersuaded a young girl like you to go out for a day in that fashion, but I meant no harm, only that you should. have one day’s pleasure.” ‘«T know it,” she replied, gently. ‘¢ All our misfortune came from that,” he said; ‘‘and, Ailie, it is of the consequences of that day I want to speak to you now.” Then she knew the hour which she had long waited for had arrived, and that her husband was going to speak to her about her marriage. ? SS) (e(e) Gomichboo . ’