A few philosophers who said that if the widow was satisfied the matter was nobody's business were treated with the contempt they deserved. Those who, on the contrary, observed that young Corbario had married for money and nothing else were heard with favour, until the man who knew everything pointed out that as the greater part of the fortune would be handed over to Marcello when he came of age, six years hence, Corbario had not made a good bargain and might have done better.
A 1904 novel by an American writer of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Francis Marion Crawford. He was the author of over forty novels, most of which were in the style of disposable romances popular at the time; stories of the horror and occult, for which the author is best is remembered today.