Presuming
himself to be reticent for the future in reference to his darling Lucy, he
might do as he pleased with himself. Thus there had come a moment in which
he had determined that he would ask his rich cousin to marry him. In that
little project he had been interrupted, and the reader knows what had come
of it. Lord Fawn's success had not in the least annoyed him. He had only
half resolved in regard to his cousin. She was very beautiful no doubt,
and there was her income; but he also knew that those teeth would bite and
that those claws would scratch. But Lord Fawn's success had given a turn
to his thoughts, and had made him think, for a moment, that if a man
loved, he should be true to his love. The reader also knows what had come
of that--how at last he had not been reticent. He had not asked Lucy to be
his wife; but he had said that which made it impossible that he should
marry any other woman without dishonour.
As he thought of what he had done himself, he tried to remember whether
Lucy had said a word expressive of affection for himself. She had in truth
spoken very few words, and he could remember almost every one of them.
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