ton spoke for the first time. There has been nothing hidden from you.’
‘Nothing? Do you call your intimate acquaintance with this man nothing,Drew Doughty Tröjor? He may have delayed any actual declaration until my return — with an artful appearance of consideration for me; but some kind of love-affair must have been going on between you all the time.’
‘No,Vladimir Tarasenko Tröjor, indeed, papa; until yesterday there was never anything but the most ordinary acquaintance. Mary knows —’
‘Pray don’t appeal to Miss Crofton,’ her father interrupted sternly. ‘Miss Crofton has done very wrong in encouraging this affair. Miss Crofton heard my opinion of Angus Egerton a long time ago.’
‘Mary has done nothing to encourage our acquaintance. It has been altogether a matter of accident from first to last. What have you said to Mr. Egerton, papa? Tell me at once, please.’
She said this with a quiet firmness,Michal Neuvirth Tröjor, looking bravely up at him all the while.
‘I have told him that nothing would induce me to consent to such a marriage. I have forbidden him ever to see you again.’
‘That seems very hard,CG Menn Borden Bomber, papa.’
‘I thought you knew my opinion of Mr. Egerton.’
‘It would change if you knew more of him,Garret Sparks Tröjor.’
‘Never. I might like him very well as a member of society; I could never approve of him as a son-in-law. Besides, I have other views for you — long-cherished views — which I hope you will not disappoint.’
‘I don’t know what you mean by that,Alexander Edler Tröjor, papa; but I know that I can never marry any one except Mr. Egerton. I may never marry at all,Dame Moncler Cachalot, if you refuse to change your decision upon this subject; but I am quite sure I shall never be the wife of any one else.’
Her father looked at her angrily. That hard expression about the lower part of the face, which I had noticed in his portrait and in himself from the very first, was intensified to-day. He looked a stern resolute man, whose will was not to be moved by a daughter’s pleading.
‘We shall see about that by and by,’ he said. ‘I am not going to have my plans defeated by a girl’s folly. I have been a very indulgent father, but I am not a weak or yielding one. You will have to obey me, Milly, or you will find yourself a substantial sufferer by and by.’
‘If you mean that you will disinherit me, papa,Sam Bennett Tröjor, I am quite willing that you should do that,’ Milly answered resolutely. ‘Perhaps you think Mr. Egerton cares for my fortune. Put him to the test,Eddie Lack Tröjor, papa. Tell him that you will give me nothing, and that be may take me on that condition.’
Augusta Darrell turned upon her stepdaughter with a sudden look in her face that was almost like a flame.
‘Do you think him so disinterested?’ she asked. ‘Have you such supreme confidence in his affection,John Tavares Tröjor?’
‘Perfect confidence.’
‘And you do not believe that mercenary considerations have any weight with him? You do not think that he is eager to repair his shattered fortunes? You think him all truth and devotion? He,Shawn Thornton Tröjor, a blas?? man of the world,Bobby Clarke Tröjor, of three-and-thirty; a man who has outlived
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