“I have heard him express it more than a dozen times.”
“I wonder what he thinks now?”
“He has not changed his mind, I presume. Nothing in the history of his own affairs, rightly viewed, would cause him to do so.”
“They who stand too high may chance to fall.”
“Yes; and the higher they stand, the more disastrous will be their fall.”
“I wonder what old Pascal’s son thinks of all this?”
“Rather ask what Pascal himself thinks of it. In my opinion, there’s a match broken off. Eveline ought to have secured her lover long and long ago. She has had time enough. But I doubt not it is too late now. Pascal loves money too well to let his son marry a portionless bride.”
“Won’t Henry consult his own fancy in the matter?”
“If he does, it will not run off in a tangent to that of his father’s, I presume. He knows the value of money too well, indifferent as he is about making it.”
“Eveline is a beautiful girl. I feel sorry for her.”