It did, indeed, seem a strange coincidence that while Mr. Moses
Spriggins drew Miss Marguerite's Verne's attention to his legal
proceedings that Phillip Lawson should be turning over certain facts
in his memory in order to elucidate some important problems as
regards his relation to this fair being.
Could he then have seen the respectful manner with which Marguerite
greeted the son of toil, he would feel more deeply impressed with
the beauty of her character, and could he have heard her modest
eulogium upon himself, an emotional chord would have vibrated to the
musical tones of her soft and well-modulated voice. But our young
friend was not to be thus gratified. It is contrary to the laws
which govern the order of the universe that an eternal fitness
should adapt itself to our circumstances.
Ah, no, my young dreamer, much as we would wish it otherwise, we
must sit patiently and see you suffer much mental agony in trying to
discipline your mind for the trying ordeal through which you must
irrevocably pass.
Nor did the sweet-faced Marguerite, as she chatted in her quiet
happy way, for one moment dream that the brawny and muscular hand of
Moses Spriggins should be yet held in friendly grasp, and that she
would ever cherish this sturdy son of toil in grateful memory.
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