In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . ove;—he smiled as he sat and smoked in thesolitude of his great dim vaulted room, and thenhe sighed impatiently. After all, it was not a beau role to woo awoman for the sheer sake of her fortune; andhe was too true a gentleman not to know what would money do for him if it werehers and not his ?—it would only humiliate him,—he felt no taste for the position of a princeconsort,—it would pass to his children certainly IN A WINTER CITY. 73 after him, and so raise up the old name to itsolden dignity; but for himself He got up and walked to t
In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . ove;—he smiled as he sat and smoked in thesolitude of his great dim vaulted room, and thenhe sighed impatiently. After all, it was not a beau role to woo awoman for the sheer sake of her fortune; andhe was too true a gentleman not to know what would money do for him if it werehers and not his ?—it would only humiliate him,—he felt no taste for the position of a princeconsort,—it would pass to his children certainly IN A WINTER CITY. 73 after him, and so raise up the old name to itsolden dignity; but for himself He got up and walked to the window; theclear winter stars, large before morning, wereshining through the iron bars and lozengedpanes of the ancient casement; the fountain inthe cortile was shining in the moonlight; theducal coronet, carved in stone above the gate-way, stood out whitely from the shadows. After all, she would despise me, and I shoulddespise myself, he thought; the old coronethad been sadly battered in war, but it had neverbeen chaffered and
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