Tomlinson was willing to marry your sister, but he would not marry the child too.
Then I took the baby, and I promised her mother that I would be to her as a father.

I have kept my word as fairly as I have been able.
She has sat at my hearth, and drunk of my cup, and been to me as my own child.

After that, I have a right to judge what is best for her.
Her life is not like your life, and her ways are not as your ways--" "Ah, that is just it; we are too vulgar for her." "You may take it as you will," said the doctor, who was too much in earnest to be in the least afraid of offending his companion.

"I have not said so; but I do say that you and she are unlike in your way of living." "She wouldn't like an uncle with a brandy bottle under his head, eh ?" "You could not see her without letting her know what is the connexion between you; of that I wish to keep her in ignorance." "I never knew any one yet who was ashamed of a rich connexion.

How do you mean to get a husband for her, eh ?" "I have told you of her existence," continued the doctor, not appearing to notice what the baronet had last said, "because I found it necessary that you should know the fact of your sister having left this child behind her; you would otherwise have made a will different from that intended, and there might have been a lawsuit, and mischief and misery when we are gone.