Lynch's Daughter Author:Leonard Merrick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: The McClure company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint o... more »f the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " I'd do anything else on earth for you," he stammered, and execrated his own triteness. To her the blow was as heavy as to him. He wasn't going to yield! She had not realised till now how it had supported her to believe that the remedy was within her reach; she had not meant to take it, she had only glanced at it sometimes for encouragement. All at once it had vanished -- the future was bare. It was to go on like this for years and years! What he was saying came to her muffled. " Don't you see that it doesn't matter whether we take much or little?" he pleaded wretchedly. "It's not the amount that makes it right or wrong; if it were right of me to say ' Yes ' to a little, it would be wrong of me to draw the line at all. Oh, Betty darling, you know the broken lives behind this money! You know what I say about it is true -- you've told me that you know! For God's sake, don't ask me to hold you at a price like that! -- it would degrade us, it would poison our love. Our marriage will never be a drawback to me if we play the game honestly -- you will be a help, you wjll be a chum, just as you want to be. It's not you who've been a fool, it's I. I ought to be kicked for giving you housekeeping to do. I ought to have remembered. I hate myself for being such a blockhead!" " Oh, nonsense! " she said dismally. " That's the only thing, isn't it ? You say you werehappy before? If it weren't for...« less