All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

ALL LV A GARDEN FAIR.
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against economy is nowhere so strongly sliown.
You refuse to save anything. You insure.
You trust to your strong arms. It is a vahant
nation indeed, where the fathers give nothing
to the bride, and the bridegroom has nothing,
and both are ricli— in the future. A brave
])eoi)k% truly ! Yet, gentlemen, I love the
French custom best, and I would that it were
in my power to give my Claire the dot which
she merits. Then would her husband be truly
rich. As for myself, you have probably heard
that the events, known to all the world, which
drove me from my country, shut me out from
the honourable career in which I should have
grown rich. I do not accuse my fate. I am
one of the martyrs of France. It is sweet and
decorous for your countr} 's sake to be a profes-
seur of French in an institution of demoiselles.'
Here he paused again, and here Will lifted
up his voice and begged him not to let the
(luestion of the dot weigh upon his mind at all,
because they loved Claire without any thought
of money.