Gresham will be most happy to
nominate you to the office. Let me have a line at your
early convenience.
Believe me,
Most sincerely yours,
CANTRIP.
He received the letter one morning in Dublin, and within three hours
he was on his route to Killaloe. Of course he would accept the
appointment, but he would not even do that without telling Mary of
his new prospect. Of course he would accept the appointment. Though
he had been as yet barely two months in Dublin, though he had hardly
been long enough settled to his work to have hoped to be able to see
in which way there might be a vista open leading to success, still he
had fancied that he had seen that success was impossible. He did not
know how to begin,--and men were afraid of him, thinking that he was
unsteady, arrogant, and prone to failure. He had not seen his way to
the possibility of a guinea.
"A thousand a-year!" said Mary Flood Jones, opening her eyes wide
with wonder at the golden future before them.
"It is nothing very great for a perpetuity," said Phineas.
"Oh, Phineas; surely a thousand a-year will be very nice."
"It will be certain," said Phineas, "and then we can be married
to-morrow."
"But I have been making up my mind to wait ever so long," said Mary.
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