But I shall expect you to let
me marry him.'
'Never!'
'Then I shall think you are--cruel; and you will break my heart.'
'You should not call your father cruel.'
'I hope you will not be cruel.'
'I can never permit you to marry this man. It would be altogether
improper. I cannot allow you to say that I am cruel because I do
what I feel to be my duty. You will see other people.'
'A great many perhaps.'
'And will learn to,--to,--to forget him.'
'Never! I will not forget him. I should hate myself if I thought
it possible. What would love be worth if it could be forgotten in
that way?' As he heard this he reflected whether his own wife,
this girl's mother, had ever forgotten her early love for that
Burgo Fitzgerald whom in her girlhood she had wished to marry.
When he was leaving her she called him back again. 'There is one
other thing I think I ought to say, papa. If Lady Cantrip speaks
to me about Mr Tregear, I can only tell her what I have told you.
I shall never give him up.' When he heard this he turned angrily
from her, almost stamping his foot upon the ground, when she
quietly left the room.
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