«The Green Mummy» en inglés
The Green Mummy
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| ✒ Autor | Fergus Hume |
| 📖 Paginas | 455 |
| ⏰ Tiempo de leer | 15 horas |
| 💡 Fecha de publicación | 1908 |
| 🌏 Idioma original | Inglés |
| 📌 Tipo | Novela |
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CHAPTER I. THE LOVERS
“I am very angry,” pouted the maid.
“In heaven’s name, why?” questioned the bachelor.
“You have, so to speak, bought me.”
“Impossible: your price is prohibitive.”
“Indeed, when a thousand pounds — ”
“You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much.
Pooh!”
“That interjection doesn’t answer my question.”
“I don’t think it is one which needs answering,” said the young man lightly; “there are more important things to talk about than pounds, shillings, and sordid pence.”
“Oh, indeed!
Such as — ”
“Love, on a day such as this is.
Look at the sky, blue as your eyes; at the sunshine, golden as your hair.”
“Warm as your affection, you should say.”
“Affection!
So cold a word, when I love you.”
“To the extent of one thousand pounds.”
“Lucy, you are a — woman.
That money did not buy your love, but the consent of your step-father to our marriage.
Had I not humored his whim, he would have insisted upon your marrying Random.”
Lucy pouted again and in scorn.
“As if I ever would,” said she.
“Well, I don’t know.
Random is a soldier and a baronet; handsome and agreeable, with a certain amount of talent.
What objection can you find to such a match?”
“One insuperable objection; he isn’t you, Archie — darling.”
“H’m, the adjective appears to be an afterthought,” grumbled the bachelor; then, when she merely laughed teasingly after the manner of women, he added moodily:
“No, by Jove, Random isn’t me, by any manner of means.
I am but a poor artist without fame or position, struggling on three hundred a year for a grudging recognition.”
“Quite enough for one, you greedy creature.”
“And for two?” he inquired softly.
“More than enough.”
“Oh, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense!”
“What! when I am engaged to you?
Actions speak much louder than remarks, Mr. Archibald Hope.
I love you more than I do money.”
“Angel! angel!”
“You said that I was a woman just now.
What do, you mean?”
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