Conscience -- Volume 1
hat these expressions of interest were leading up to a proposal of marriage, and an exclamation
greeable it is not to
had not shown to Saniel, which proved that he had
clerk fro
id, on returning to his office.
from his portfolio an
el and the clerk counted the bills which they heard rustle in his hands. Presently he rose, and closing the door of the safe he placed
ut," Caffie said, who was alr
t be a
ne Caffie apologized
way to relieve you permanently from embarrassment, and that way you will find is i
e to marry now, when I have
ve just spoken with so much assur
same reasons that I have to hope and believe what I hope and believe, it is quite natural that they should feel doubts of
tate to contract several others successively, which, you must acknowledge, weakens the guarantee th
er thought
hould thi
be a woman f
opose one, what
ut
re sur
ess tha
er of one of my friends, while listening to you I thought that one or the other might be the woman you need. Both have fortunes, and both possess physical a
ographs. As he turned them over Saniel saw that they were all port
he had evidently put on for the purpose of being photographed. The other was a young girl of about twenty years, pretty
res Caffie studied him, trying to
erything, the good and the bad, so that my clients are responsible for the decisions they make. In reality, there is nothing bad about these two persons, because, if there were, I would not pr
d over his face, and he cla
er?" Sani
ow it; I know by myself that nothing is more anno
t not to
man older than himself, who will treat him as a husband and as a son. Her first husband was a careful merchant, who, had he lived, would have made a large fortune in the butcher business"-he mumbled this word instead of pronouncing it clearly-"but although he died just at the time when his affairs were beginning to develop, he left twenty thousand pounds' income to his
belie
l soon carry her off; and, as the contract will be made according to my wishes in view of s
ion of the situation that Caffie made with the most perfect good- nature. So gra
he flaw, for there is one. Who is blameless? The daughter of one of our leading actresses, after leaving the convent she returned to live with her mother. It was there, in this environment- ahem! ahem!-that an accident happened to her. To be brief, she has a sweet little child that the father would have recognized assuredly, had he not been already married. But at least he has provided for its future by an endowment of two hundred thousand francs, in such a way that whoever marries the mother and legitimizes the child will enjoy the interest of this sum until the child's m
ing is mo
t of this pain t
ed while hol
Saniel said, with the tone of a
To tell the truth, they
consulted
h seldom happens, I notice that they think much more of their own affairs than of what I am saying, an
haracteristic signs of rapid consumption. His clothes hung on him as if made for a man twice h
" he asked. "It may be possib
u thin
tion did no
often dry, is i
es
often t
way
u slee
N
ght trou
es
a good a
ore I eat the thinner I become.
scars from boils on t
hey came. Hang it, one is no longer young at seventy-two years;
prescribe, if you wish, you will soon be better. I will
ccasion to meet if, as I presume, you appreciate the
ve time to
reasonable. The
Jardine, I shall find myself in the street, wh
l not come to such a pass as t
in; Jardine has alr
we presume he will, proceed by a replevin, we shall have sufficie
xpired on th
ot pa
the only thing that i
moment. We can manage this way more easily. The important thing is