Miss Misanthrope; a novel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...to have cost. I don't like the thing at all." "But think of the joy given to the poet. It is surely not very dearly bought at the price. I never knew of a man so happy." "Yes, yes; that is all very well for hiin" "It is very well for me too, Mr. Heron--to be able to do a kindness for any human creature. I dare say it has given me as much pleasure as it has given him, and made me quite as proud too--and is not that something to gain?" "Still I can't help feeling uneasy about this thing. It has cost a heap of money--much more than I ever supposed it would--and I seem as if I had brought you into all the expense." "How could that be, Mr. Heron? I expressly wished Mr. Blanchet to do as he pleased; and he understood me exactly as I wished him to do. You had nothing to do with it." "Oh, yes! I had something to do with it; and then--excuse me--you are rather young perhaps" "Perhaps I can't be expected to know my own mind; or ought not to be trusted with the spending of my own money?" "No, I didn't mean that; but you might not have known exactly what you were being let in for; and it is a good deal of money for a girl to pay." "And in fact you don't think a girl ought to be allowed to spend her money without some wise person of the superior sex to guide her hand? Thank you very much, Mr. Heron, but I think I may have my own way in this at least. I have often told you that I left Keeton because I could not stand the control of wiser and better persons than myself. I am not at all a good girl, Mr. Heron; I never said I was. The counsels of the wise are sadly thrown away on me, I fear." She spoke in a hard and ungenial tone, which he had not heard her use before. He could no...