Anna Katharine Green

The Amethyst Box Anna Katharine Green

Book Excerpt: ...m leave to hope that the blow he so dreaded was not necessarily directed toward his own affections. Yet, being a generous fellow, he blushed to be detected in his egotism, while I--well, I own that at that moment I should have felt a very unmixed joy at being assured that the foundations of my own love were secure, and that the tiny flask Sinclair had missed had not been taken by the hand of the one to whom I looked for all my earthly happiness. And my wedding-day was as yet a vague and distant hope, while his was set for the morrow."We must carry down stairs very different faces from these," he remarked, "or we shall be stopped before we reach the library."I made an effort at composure, so did he; and both being determined men, we soon found ourselves in a condition to descend among our friends without attracting any closer attention than was naturally due him as prospective bridegroom and myself as best man. IIBEATON'S DREAMMrs. Armstrong, our hostess, was..