Home Lights and Shadows

Name: Home Lights and Shadows
Author: T. S. Arthur

by T. S. Arthur

Pages: about 155
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 2.9 h at 250 wpm

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From the opening

"Well, Gray, the business is all settled," said Wilton, one day, coming into the office of the individual he addressed so familiarly.
"Why, I've won the rich and beautiful Miss Linton. Last night I told my story, and was referred to the old man, of course. I have just seen him, and he says I am welcome to the hand of his daughter. Now, is not that a long stride up the ladder! The most beautiful and attractive woman in the city for a wife, and an old daddy in law as rich as Croesus!"
"You are what some would call a lucky dog," said Wilton, with a smile.
"And yet there is no luck in it. 'Faint heart, they say, 'never won fair lady.' I knew half-a-dozen clever fellows who were looking to Miss Linton's hand; but while they hesitated, I stepped boldly up and carried off the prize. Let me alone, Walter. I'll work my way through the world."
"You? Why, Walter, you confound me! I never dreamed that you would have the courage to make love to a woman."
"Of course. She is the most sensible women it has yet been my fortune to meet."
"You are a genius, Walter. When you die, I expect you will leave a clause in your will, to the effect that the undertaker shall be a man of good, plain, common sense. O dear! What a dull life you will lead! Darby and Joan!"
"You are still a trifler with serious matters, Charles. But time will sober you, I trust, and do it before such a change will come too late."
"How much is old Emory worth, Walter?" Wilton asked, without regarding the last remark of his friend.
"I am sure I do not know. Not a great deal, I suppose."

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Home Lights and Shadows

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