If he bids me go, I must go, and then of course I shall go where he sends me; but I won't say that I think it best that I should go, and certainly I do not want to go to Lady Cantrip." This she said with great decision, as though the matter was one on which she had altogether made up her mind.

Then she added, in a lower voice: "Why doesn't papa speak to me about it ?" "He is thinking only of what may be best for you." "It would be best for me to stay near him.

Whom else has he got ?" All this Mrs.Finn repeated to the Duke as closely as she could, and then of course the father was obliged to speak to his daughter.
"Don't send me away, papa," she said at once.
"Your life here, Mary, will be inexpressibly sad." "It must be sad anywhere.

I cannot go to college, like Gerald, or live anywhere just as I please, like Silverbridge." "Do you envy them that ?" "Sometimes, papa.

Only I shall think more of poor mamma by being alone, and I should like to be thinking of her always." He shook his head mournfully.