At Love's Cost

The Project Gutenberg EBook of At Love's Cost, by Charles GarviceThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: At Love's CostAuthor: Charles GarviceRelease Date: December 4, 2003 [EBook #10379]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AT LOVE'S COST ***Produced by Ted Garvin and PG Distributed ProofreadersAT LOVE'S COSTBy CHARLES GARVICEAT LOVE'S COSTCHAPTER 1"Until this moment I have never fully realised how great an ass a man can be. When I think that this morning I scurriedthrough what might have been a decent breakfast, left my comfortable diggings, and was cooped up in a train for sevenhours, that I am now driving in a pelting rain through, so far as I can see for the mist, what appears to be a howlingwilderness, I ask myself if I am still in possession of my senses. I ask myself why I should commit such lurid folly. Lastnight I was sitting over the fire with a book—for it was cold, though not so cold as this," the speaker shivered anddragged the collar of his overcoat still higher—"at peace with all the world, with Omar purring placidly by my side, and mysoul wrapped in that serenity which belongs to a man who has long since rid himself of that inconvenient appendage—aconscience, and has hit upon the right brand of ...