There has, I
believe, been someone at work in the matter with whom I ought to
be more angry than with you. Say that you will obey me, and there
is nothing within a father's power that I will not do for you, to
make your life happy.' It was thus that he strove to be stern.
His heart, indeed, was tender enough, but there was nothing tender
in the tone of his voice or in the glance of his eye. Though he
was very positive in what he said, yet he was shy and shamefaced
even with his own daughter. He, too, had blushed when he told her
that she must conquer her love.
That she should be told that she had disgraced herself was
terrible to her. That her father should speak of her marriage with
this man as an event that was impossible made her very unhappy.
That he should talk of pardoning her, as for some great fault, was
in itself a misery. But she had not on that account the least idea
of giving up her lover. Young as she was, she had her own peculiar
theory on that matter, her own code of conduct and honour, from
which she did not mean to be driven.
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