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'She will do nothing without your permission. But she will remain
unmarried unless she be allowed to marry Mr Tregear.'
'What do you advise then?'
'That you should yield. As regards money, you could give them what
they want. Let him go into public life. You could manage that for
him.'
'He is Conservative!'
'What does that matter when the question is one of your daughter's
happiness? Everybody tells me that he is clever and well
conducted.'
He betrayed nothing by his face as this was said to him. But as he
got into the carriage he was a miserable man. It is very well to
tell a man that he should yield, but there is nothing so wretched
to a man as yielding. Young people and women have to yield,--bur
for such a man as this, to yield is in itself a misery. In this
matter the Duke was quite certain of the propriety of his
judgement. To yield would be not only to mortify himself; but to
do wrong at the same time. He had convinced himself that the
Popplecourt arrangement would come to nothing. Nor had he or Lady
Cantrip combined been able to exercise over her the sort of power
to which Lady Glencora had been subjected.
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