Excerpt: ... not have had the courage to mention the subject if I did not feel almost sure of a change of fortune. I don't want to tell you just yet. I'm trying not to tell you; but dearest, loveliest Marcia, I believe I'm on the eve of success. I can almost close my fingers around it, and then you will let me tell you I love you, won't you, dearest? Yes, laugh at me, I don't mind." "But suppose, just suppose this wonderful fortune never does materialize," she said half teasingly but still tremulously, a smile on her lips ...
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Excerpt: ... not have had the courage to mention the subject if I did not feel almost sure of a change of fortune. I don't want to tell you just yet. I'm trying not to tell you; but dearest, loveliest Marcia, I believe I'm on the eve of success. I can almost close my fingers around it, and then you will let me tell you I love you, won't you, dearest? Yes, laugh at me, I don't mind." "But suppose, just suppose this wonderful fortune never does materialize," she said half teasingly but still tremulously, a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. "What then?" "Never suppose it. It can't help it," he cried confidently. "Why even now I can see particles of gold in the air. To morrow, next day, the day afterward, we shall have our cake. Will you eat it with me, Marcia, if it's a nice, brown, plum y cake?" "You make too many conditions," she said demurely. "I don't care for very rich cake Pg 172 myself. Suppose the cake should not turn out particularly well in the baking? Wouldn't you offer me a piece anyway--Bobby?" Again he looked up the path and down the path; people still hastening to and fro. Arcady was infested with toilers hurrying home to supper. "I'd try not to," he said manfully, keeping his eyes resolutely away from hers. "Oh, Marcia, I can't be certain, I'd try not to. I couldn't bear to see you eating underdone cake. It would only mean misery to you. Your manner of life--" "My manner of life!" she interrupted him scornfully. "Ah, what is my manner of life! Do you fancy that I am deaf as a post and blind as a bat? Do you think that I do not know some of the things that are spoken of me, by Mrs. Ames, for instance, or Horace Penfield, or even Edith Symmes? Do you fancy any word of that tittle tattle escapes me? Sometimes it is repeated, or hinted in malice; sometimes as from Bea or Kitty in fright, as a warning, almost a Pg 173 prayer. I know that I lay myself open to gossip; but I can not help it, at least at present. It is...
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