'She will have money enough,' the
Duchess had said, 'if only her father can be brought to give it to
you.' So Tregear had set his heart upon it, and had said to
himself that the thing was to be done. Then his friend the Duchess
had died, and the real difficulties had commenced. From that day
he had not seen his love, or heard from her. How was he to know
whether she would be true to him? And where was he to seek for
that sympathy which he felt to be so necessary to him? A wild
idea had come into his head that Mrs Finn would be his friend;--but
she had repudiated him.
He went straight home and at once wrote to the girl. The letter
was a simple love-letter, and as such need not be given here. In
what sweetest language he could find he assured her that even
though he should never be allowed to see her or to hear from her,
that still he should cling to her. And then he added this passage:
'If your love for me be what I think it is to be, no one can have
a right to keep us apart. Pray be sure that I shall not change. If
you change let me know it;--but I shall as soon expect the heavens
to fall.
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