Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... 301 CHAPTER XVIII. THE LOST LETTER. Of course Sparks thought himself a match for any girl. Doesn't every young man think so, and especially every young man who "knows the world?" Hadn't he already been a match, in a perfectly respectable way, for Miss Jones? and though winning her had been rather a dull game, it had not been without its difficulties. Had it not been necessary for him, for instance, especially for the winning of her parents, to acquire a totally new language, and to become conformed to the world in which they lived and moved? Poor Miss Jones was a very pretty girl, and what people call a sweet girl: one of those girls, moreover, who fall in love on the slightest possible provocation. She had the best of tempers--a temper, in fact, which it was almost impossible for anything to ruffle. When Sparks proposed to her, she of course took it for granted that he was violently in love; indeed, he told her he was, and she had no reason in the world to think it strange that a young man should be in love with so pretty and good-tempered a girl as she was. Of course her parents felt it necessary to make the customary inquiries, having extremely little confidence in the felicity of " love in a cottage." Two qualifications they considered indispensable; or, at any rate, one indispensable, and the other highly desirable. The one absolutely indispensable, was a good position in society and good prospects; the other, highly desirable, was piety, or a hopeful tendency to become pious. As to the first of these, Sparks was all that could be desired; and as to the second, he was much that could be hoped. "I don't want to be a hypocrite," he said to Mr. Jones; "I don't pretend to be much better than other fellows of my own age and position, and tf course I shall...
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