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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's

An Ambitious Man

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Preston Cheney - Baroness Brown - Berene - The Palace - Sleep - Whatever Hope - Two Decades Passed - Church Going - Joy Irving - Notes - Alice Cheney - Preston Cheney - Matter of Days - Unpleasant Story - Departure - All-forgiving Love - Point of Virus - The New Church - Fears - Divine Presence - Divine Knowledge - Contents -

she knew perfectly the part her father's influence and wealth bad played; but she was quite content with affairs as they were, and it mattered little to her what bad brought them about. to be married, rather than to be loved, bad been her ambition since she left school; being incapable of loving, she was incapable of appreciating the passion in any of its phases. It had always seemed to her that a great deal of nonsense was written and talked about love. She thought demonstrative people very vulgar, and believed kissing a means of conveying germs of disease.

But to be a married woman, with an establishment of her Own, and a husband to exhibit to her friends, was necessary to the maintenance of her pride.

When Miss Lawrence's mother, a nervous invalid, was informed of her daughter's engagement, she burst into tears, as over a lamb offered on the altar of sacrifice; and Judge Lawrence pressed a kiss on the lobe of Mabel's left ear which she offered him, and told her she bad won a prize in the market. But as be sat alone over his cigar that night, be sighed heavily, and said to himself, "Poor fellow, I wish Mabel were not so much like her mother."

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