Rhona - 1900 Author:Forrester Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in Eosalind; she seemed to think that a declaration just then would be premature, so he rejoined his regiment in Ireland in a state of hopeless love-sickness, co... more »upled with a diffidence of his own powers of pleasing extremely unusual to so favored and admired a guardsman. The Irish young ladies tried their hands at him, and abused him volubly afterwards for their want of success. Colonel Dorian was one of those men who, when they are very much ipris with one woman, find it difficult to be barely civil to any other, and women are quick to see and resent this. Rosalind broached the subject of his admiration to Rhona, and discovered that, although that young lady found his society most agreeable, matrimony was very far indeed from her thoughts. CHAPTER III. A CONVERT TO MARRIAGE. " Charlie !" said Mrs. Granville one morning to her husband, " don't you think Colonel Dorian would make an excellent husband for Rhona?" " H'm !" responded Charlie, dubiously, divided between loyalty and affection for his friend and a natural love of the truth. You see, he knew a great deal of that friend's antecedents : over nocturnal pipes he had enjoyed the privilege of hearing Gustav's real opinion about women and marriage, illustrated by certain anecdotes and reminiscences upon which his theories were founded. And the George Dorian he knew was not exactly the George Dorian whom his wife found so delightful, so ready to be domesticated, so " thoroughly cut out for a good husband." Charlie had not a secret in the world from his wife upon any subject that it behooved her to know, but there were certain things he kept to himself. He had a great respect for Rosalind's purity of mind, and he did not think it expedient to repeat to her the conversations of men whose morality was of a low order. ...« less