He's not fit to marry
among OUR women.... What a pity such a stunning girl shouldn't
have the accessories to make her eligible." And he hastily turned
his longing eyes away, lest she should see and attach too much
importance to a mere longing--for, he felt it would be a pitiful
weakness, a betrayal of opportunity, for him to marry, in a mood
of passion that passes, a woman who was merely well born, when he
had the right to demand both birth and wealth in his wife.
"I've often thought," pursued Margaret, "that to be loved by a man
of the Craig sort would be--interesting."
"While being loved by one of your own sort would be dull?"
suggested Arkwright with a strained smile.
Margaret shrugged her bare white shoulders in an inflammatory
assent. "Will you go with me to the Supreme Court on Tuesday?"
"Delighted," said Arkwright. And he did not realize that the deep-
hidden source of his enthusiasm was a belief that Josh Craig would
make an ass of himself.
CHAPTER V
ALMOST HOOKED
In human affairs, great and small, there are always many reasons
for every action; then, snugly tucked away underneath all these
reasons that might be and ought to be and pretend to be but
aren't, hides the real reason, the real moving cause of action.
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