False Cards

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 44 CHAPTER III. ORDERED ABROAD. OEGINALD HOLBOURNE, the morn- -- ing after that Richmond excursion, springs from a bed of roses to confront once more this world's dull realities. He had fallen asleep lulled by the sweet consciousness that Lettice loved him?that the words that bound them irrevocably to each other had

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been at last spoken?that the struggle between his conscience and his passion was over?that he had won the girl in whom his whole being was wrapped up. But reflection comes with the dawn, and the roses of evening are apt to developtheir thorns by daylight. As he goes through man's grimmest matutinal task, the operation of shaving?when, looking our worst, we are compelled to confront ourselves, and meditate upon the lines that sins and advancing years have written upon our countenances?he muses in troubled fashion upon his complications. Of course he must break with Marion now?but how? The letter that is to carry that intelligence does not seem quite so easy to pen as he had deemed it last night. How is he to put it ? What is he to say ? This new love of his will hardly be an eligible excuse for the breaking of that long-plighted troth. And then Reginald feels bitter shame at the idea of throwing over a girl whose love he had won as an heiress, now that she is but slenderly endowed with this world's gear. He need have little compunction, did he know all; but then, that is precisely whathe does not know, and he believes Marion thoroughly true to her engagement. Well, he thinks there is no necessity for writing that letter to-day. Like most weak men, he takes comfort in the idea of procrastination. Something may turn up?of a verity something will turn up, that shall make him regret such procrastination for many a long day. A jealous, irritated woman, stung t...

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