She claimed that nothing further
could come of our friendship as long as I continued an emissary of
Natural Law; that her religion forbade it and her parents would oppose
it; that her friends would be against it, and the whole world would
sneer at it; and that to be placed in such a trying position was more
than she could possibly bear. According to her, there was no good reason
why I could not give up my undertaking, to please her. She had
everything in the world to make me happy and was willing to give me
anything within her power, if I would only relinquish my purpose and
promise never to think of it again. She told me that she was wealthy,
that she had millions in her own name, and that her father and uncles
were multi-millionaires, to whose wealth she would be the sole heir. She
said that if I would promise to quit the work I was engaged in, that she
would give me her hand in marriage, and also deposit in the bank to my
credit one million dollars on the following day as a dowry, with which I
could do as I pleased. She was serious and, apparently in earnest, and I
did not doubt one word of what she said as being the truth. So I was
placed in the position of choosing between great wealth, the woman I
loved, and all other earthly pleasures on the one hand, and a duty which
I had solemnly sworn to perform, on the other. It was a trying
situation, to say the least. With bowed head I sat and considered all
phases of the matter, with much earnestness and equal indecision.
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