City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

THE LOVERS "I am very angry," pouted the maid. "In heaven's name, why?" questioned the bachelor. "You have, so to speak, bought me." "Impossible: your price is prohibitive." "Indeed, when a thousand pounds - " "You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!" "That interjection doesn't answer my question." "I don't think it is one which needs answering," said the young man lightly; "there are more important things to talk about than pounds, shillings, and sordid pence." "Oh, indeed! Such as - " "Love, on a day such as this is. Look at the sky, blue as your eyes; at the sunshine, golden as your hair." "Warm as your affection, you should say." "Affection! So cold a word, when I love you." "To the extent of one thousand pounds." "Lucy, you are a - woman. That money did not buy your love, but the consent of your stepfather to our marriage. Had I not humored his whim, he would have insisted upon your marrying Random."

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