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Love for an Hour Is Love Forever

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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: CHAPTER III. THE SQUIRE AND THE SPINNER. But this is human life?the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imaginations, struggles far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good? That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence.?Keats. evils of poverty are evident and easily under- 1 stood; those of wealth are more complex, but perhaps not the less trying. Martha Leigh really suffered as much in the supposed danger of a mortgaged home as if the mortgage was an accomplished fact. Yet there was really no obvious reason for her anxiety; for Stephen, though a bold and far-seeing speculator, was not an unwise one. All his investments were likely to bear the touch of time, and if they were permitted to ripen, to yield a wealthy return. But women have neither the faith nor the patience for such money transactions. They demand certain and rapid results, and are not content unless some security on which they have set their hearts is placed beyond doubt. Martha Leigh felt that if Leigh Farm was absolutely secure she could be happy. But this was the one point Stephen was indisposed to humor her in. He had promised not to involve the old home, and he felt her perpetual anxiety to be a doubt of his honor, and an insuit to his own regard for those who were behind, and those who were to follow him. And Stephen had masterful ways which might be criticised, but which no one felt able to interfere with. The enterprises he had begun he pursued, regardless of the opinion of his wife and family. They would acknowledge his wisdom some day; and he was satisfied to wait for his justification until financial returns deserved it. In his own mind he had built the new mill, and seen its thousand looms toiling for his benefit; and he went steadily...

Language: English

Pages: 150

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2007

ISBN 13: 9780217863353

Love for an Hour Is Love Forever

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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: CHAPTER III. THE SQUIRE AND THE SPINNER. But this is human life?the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imaginations, struggles far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good? That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence.?Keats. evils of poverty are evident and easily under- 1 stood; those of wealth are more complex, but perhaps not the less trying. Martha Leigh really suffered as much in the supposed danger of a mortgaged home as if the mortgage was an accomplished fact. Yet there was really no obvious reason for her anxiety; for Stephen, though a bold and far-seeing speculator, was not an unwise one. All his investments were likely to bear the touch of time, and if they were permitted to ripen, to yield a wealthy return. But women have neither the faith nor the patience for such money transactions. They demand certain and rapid results, and are not content unless some security on which they have set their hearts is placed beyond doubt. Martha Leigh felt that if Leigh Farm was absolutely secure she could be happy. But this was the one point Stephen was indisposed to humor her in. He had promised not to involve the old home, and he felt her perpetual anxiety to be a doubt of his honor, and an insuit to his own regard for those who were behind, and those who were to follow him. And Stephen had masterful ways which might be criticised, but which no one felt able to interfere with. The enterprises he had begun he pursued, regardless of the opinion of his wife and family. They would acknowledge his wisdom some day; and he was satisfied to wait for his justification until financial returns deserved it. In his own mind he had built the new mill, and seen its thousand looms toiling for his benefit; and he went steadily...

Language: English

Pages: 150

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2007

ISBN 13: 9780217863353

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