The Way of the Spirit Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...he looked at her, not without admiration "And now please tell me exactly what our relations are to be in the future? As I don't Want t0 be mixed up with a bigamy c, lSe-'-for fellows like that have an awkward trick of reappe-arin8--marriage seems out of the question, 'Then might I ask what is in the ques)') "Nothing at all," replied Edith firmly. "Don't )ose for one moment that I am going to be ined in any wretched irregularity with its inevitable "What's the inevitable end, my dear?" "Where men like you are concerned, desertion. exposure, I imagine." "You are not complimentary to-day, Edith, though haps you are right. These hole-and-corner busises always finish in misery; very often in mutual estation. But now, just see what a mess you re made by trying to get everything. You mard Rupert, whom you cordially disliked, and won't: k to him because somebody has cut off his foot d Devene has got an heir. You engaged yourself me, who, up to the present, at any rate, you rdially liked, and now you won't stick to me, not )m any motives of high morality, which one might spect, but for fear of the consequences. So it ems that there is only one person to whom you ill stick, and that is your precious self. Well, I ish you joy of the choice, Edith, but speaking as a mdid friend, I don't personally know anyone who as held better cards and thrown them under the tabk--. Now the table is left, that is all, a nice, hard, polished table, and you can look in it at the reflection of your own pretty face till you grow tired. There is one thing, I sha'n't be jealous, because what applies to me will apply to any other man. As your own husband is...