Quite
soon, after we were married—it was just within a year—I formed a friendship
with the wife of a friend, a woman eight years older than myself. She was chaffing him about being taken for Meysey Hill, and suggested
that he should be presented to me as the millionaire. "Where shall I fly?" exclaimed the lady, bewildered with terror. ’
‘How can you possibly enquire for her?’ demanded Hilary acidly. "Well, my
pretty dears," he added, "—to see your husband, eh? You must make the most of
your time. The fascination of the idea of throwing
himself upon his knees and crying out all that was in his heart! As his eyes began
to focus objects, he saw one of her arms extended upon the counterpane, in his
direction, the hand clenched tightly. As O'Higgins signed the hotel
register, his keen glance took in the latest signatures. Now
the sense of beauty was spreading to a multitude of hitherto unsuspected aspects
of the world about her. Soon the
trunk, portmanteau and hat box were ready. He spent a good deal more money
and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in
producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in
rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a
beautiful and dignified manner.
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