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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...bitter disappointment he feels at the failure of all the hopes he has cherished with respect to Ginevra Marx! CHAPTER XVI. "NOT FOR MY owu SAKE, BUT FOR YOURS!" "ON the 20th of July, at the British Embassy, Brusca, the Honourable Cecil Falconer, second son of the late Earl of Draconsfield, to Ginevra Marx." Such is the brief announcement by which the fashionable world learns that, three months from the date of his leaving England, our scapegrace has irretrievably linked his fortunes with those of the young artist. His friends read the paragraph and shrug their shoulders--some with pity, others with incredulity. Amongst the latter are the Carravicini, and ladies of her type. Cornelia Seton is indignant, Miss Browne passive and weeping, only Lady Draconsfield considers the circumstance too insignificant to raise feeling of any kind. "Cecil has done for himself now, and no mistake!" she observes, indifferently, to the Earl, "and I hope we have seen and heard the last of him. He will hardly have the face to show himself amongst the old set with a nobody as Mrs. Falconer!" "But are you sure she is a nobody?" replies Lord Draconsfield, who is by no means badly disposed towards his brother. "Cecil says she is a countess in her own right, and Marx is a good name in Prussia. Besides, she must have money, from the way he writes of her." _ At George's earnest solicitation, Cecil has written to announce his marriage to his mother, and to claim some sort of consideration for his wife. "All the better for him if she has!" retorts her ladyship; "for he has not enough to support himself on, let alone a wife and family! But, since Mr. Falconer has developed the...