Not a day passed, or hardly an hour of a day, in which she did not
tell herself that the education she had received and the early
associations of her life had made her unfit for the marriage which
her friends were urging upon her. It was the one great sorrow of
her life. She even repented of the good things of her early days
because they had given her a distaste for what might have otherwise
been happiness and good fortune. There had been moments in which
she had told herself that she ought to marry Larry Twentyman and
adapt herself to the surroundings of her life. Since she had seen
Reginald Morton frequently, she had been less prone to tell herself
so than before; and yet to this very man she had declared her
fitness for Larry's companionship!
CHAPTER XVI
Mr. Gotobed's Philanthropy
Mr. Gotobed, when the persecutions of Goarly were described to him
at the scene of the dead fox, had expressed considerable admiration
for the man's character as portrayed by what he then heard. The
man,--a poor man too and despised in the land, was standing up for
his rights, all alone, against the aristocracy and plutocracy of
the county. He had killed the demon whom the aristocracy and
plutocracy worshipped, and had appeared there in arms ready to
defend his own territory,--one against so many, and so poor a man
against men so rich! The Senator had at once said that he would
call upon Mr.
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