Phroso: A Romance

Phroso: A Romance

Quot homines tot sententi; so many men, so many fancies. My fancy was for an island. Perhaps boyhoods glamour hung yet round sea-girt rocks, and faery lands forlorn, still beckoned me; perhaps I felt that London was too full, the Highlands rather fuller, the Swiss mountains most insufferably crowded of them all. Money can buy company, and it can buy retirement. The latter service I asked now of the moderate wealth with which my poor cousin Toms death had endowed me. Everybody was good enough to suppose that I rejoiced at Toms death, whereas I was particularly sorry for it, and was not consoled even by the prospect of the island. My friends understood this wish for an island as little as they appreciated my feelings about poor Tom. Beatrice was most[Pg 2] emphatic in declaring that a horrid little island had no charms for her, and that she would never set foot in it. This declaration was rather annoying, because I had imagined myself, spending my honeymoon with Beatrice on the island; but life is not all honeymoon, and I decided to have the island none the less. Besides I was not to be married for a year. Mrs Kennett Hipgrave had insisted on this delay in order that we might be sure that we knew our own hearts. And as I may say without unfairness that Mrs Hipgrave was to a considerable degree responsible for the engagementshe asserted the fact herself with much prideI thought that she had a right to some voice in the date of the marriage. Moreover the postponement just gave me the time to go over and settle affairs in the island. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41822
Author: Hope, Anthony
Release Date: Jan 11, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English