Ten Times One is Ten Author:Edward Everett Hale 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: CHAPTER IIL TEN TIMES A HUNDRED. [An Experience of Dalrymple's.] "T 7ELL! we subdued the world as we could in Calabria. Then we returned to our respective... more » homes: Garibaldi to his island, I to No. 9 in the Third Range, Frank Chaney to Scrooby, and Dalrymple to that truly English home in Norfolk, which nothing had driven him from but the unrest of an Englishman, — some lo gad-fly, — and the desire of seeing Italy righted, and Vittorio on the throne of Bourbon. Ill these respective spheres, as assigned to us, we did our part; and I, for mine, embarked in the manufacture of a new sphere and new world, of which no more at present. Then was it that the parents of Dalrymple urged him to do his duty to the respectable Norman baron who founded his line, and " settle down." Then was it that Dalrymple, seeking for trout in a brook that ran through the ances- tral domain, met Mabel Harlakenden, the youngest daughter of a neighboring house. She was sitting on a mossy rock, her feet hidden in ferns, and reading " Coventry Patmore." Dalrymple and she had not met since he broke her father's window with a horse-chestnut on the day of her tenth birthday. Then was it that he introduced himself to her again, and fished no more that day, nor did she read any more. Three months after was it that in the parish church he gave her a ring. The minister took the ring and gave it to Dalrymple, and he then put it on the fourth finger of Mabel Harlakenden's left hand. Then he was taught by the minister. And then they all went home to Dalrymple's father's house to live there. " Was she a descendant of Mabel Harlakenden of Kent ? " Yes, she was. Why do you interrupt ? That has nothing to do with the story, and your question took nine words. Then Dalrymple proved to be less settled than ever...« less