"There has no doubt sprung up between us a feeling of mutual distrust,
which has led to recrimination, and which is hardly compatible with that
perfect confidence which should exist between a man and his wife. This
first arose no doubt from the different views which we took as to that
property of which I have spoken, and as to which your judgment may
possibly have been better than mine. On that head I will add nothing to
what I have already said; but the feeling has arisen, and I fear it cannot
be so perfectly allayed as to admit of that reciprocal trust without which
we could not live happily together. I confess that for my own part I do
not now desire a union which was once the great object of my ambition, and
that I could not go to the altar with you without fear and trembling. As
to your own feelings, you best know what they are. I bring no charge
against you; but if you have ceased to love me I think you should cease to
wish to be my wife, and that you should not insist upon a marriage simply
because by doing so you would triumph over a former objection. "Before he
finished this paragraph he thought much of Andy Gowran and of the scene
among the rocks of which he had heard.
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