too Good for Him Author:Florence Marryat 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: 47 CHAPTER III. REX HAS AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR. If Isobel Fane's happiness had depended upon the sympathy she met with in Torrington Square, it would cer... more »tainly have had but a frail tenure, for her sister gave her still less than did Mr. Peyton. Ever since the day on which she had expressed her determination to marry Rex Reverdon, Fanny had behaved to her as if she had committed a crime too bad to mention, but of which it was fit she should be hourly reminded by a method of silent reproach, which was mixed up with everything she said or did. The only ones in Torrington Square who rejoiced with Isobel at her new prospects were the servants; and from them she received the heartiest congratulations; and Mary, the housemaid (with whom she was an especial favourite), had been heard to declare downstairs, that itwas " the next best thing to being married herself." But, in the meanwhile, Isobel cared very little for the dearth of good wishes for her happiness ; she felt too sure of it. When, a few days after, she received the ponderous-looking deed which set forth in so many sheets of parchment, and such incomprehensible words, the simple, loving truth, that she could trust the man with her money with whom she was not afraid to trust herself, she could have cried with joy that she had it in her power to give her beloved one such a proof of her faith in him. And I think she was foolish enough to sleep with it under her pillow, regardless of her own comfort, that she might see it the first thing in the morning, and try to picture to herself how he would look when she placed it in his dear hands. The summer days flew on to Isobel rapidly and happily, notwithstanding that all the preparations for her wedding had to be looked after by herself. One might have supposed that Fanny, foo...« less