'What is that?'
she asked, pointing to the title.
Henry suspended his search, and glanced at the prospectus.
'A really promising speculation,' he said. 'Large hotels always
pay well, if they are well managed. I know the man who is appointed
to be manager of this hotel when it is opened to the public;
and I have such entire confidence in him that I have become one of
the shareholders of the Company.'
The reply did not appear to satisfy Agnes. 'Why is the hotel
called the "Palace Hotel"?' she inquired.
Henry looked at her, and at once penetrated her motive for asking
the question. 'Yes,' he said, 'it is the palace that Montbarry
hired at Venice; and it has been purchased by the Company to be
changed into an hotel.'
Agnes turned away in silence, and took a chair at the farther
end of the room. Henry had disappointed her. His income as a
younger son stood in need, as she well knew, of all the additions
that he could make to it by successful speculation. But she was
unreasonable enough, nevertheless, to disapprove of his attempting
to make money already out of the house in which his brother had died.
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