HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1857. 249. v. 245. LIFE AND ITS REALITIES, CHAPTER I. CONFIDENCE. "It would never do! you would be miserable. It would be utter wretchedness if you were to accept him," said Mrs. Lennox to her daughter Lucy. "What there is in a word, in one little foolish word!" thought the young girl. If she had said, "Will, you will be miserable if you accept him," then Lucy would have felt there might be some remote chance that her mother VOL. I. B |