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Excerpt from The Black Squire, or a Lady's Four Wishes, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Then he would break off into protestations that he would never be raised, like a reckless speculator, into discreditable af uence by the surreptitious acquisition of a wife's fortune - and such a woman! Not he! He would none of it; the very idea de graded his love. Love her he always must and would, but with a generous love, at his own cost, in a way that would not harm her. All he would hope was that he might some day, by some turn of. For tune's wheel, be able to make for her some great sacrifice what he could not exactly imagine, but something that would let her see the consuming fire that he had so manfully concealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."