I Tried to Hold Your Hand

Amy Heath, the daughter of a landowner with a massive dowry, firmly believed that a boy who suddenly appeared in Lochmoor one day was her prospective fiancé. “Who would marry a wretched thing like him? I won’t do it!” It soon became clear that this was an absurd misunderstanding. “Pancotte is just a beggar living off our house. That bastard dared to impersonate Enoch Usher?” She was indignant that she had been so completely deceived. Yet, at the same time, she grew curious about the boy who had faithfully brought her flowers, never forgetting his promise. She found her heart drifting toward him. Arthur Pancotte, the disgrace of the Usher family, had a debt to collect from the Baron’s es...