Say that you will obey me, and there is nothing within a father's power that I will not do for you, to make your life happy." It was thus that he strove not to be stern.

His heart, indeed, was tender enough, but there was nothing tender in the tone of his voice or in the glance of his eye.

Though he was very positive in what he said, yet he was shy and shamefaced even with his own daughter.

He, too, had blushed when he told her that she must conquer her love.
That she should be told that she had disgraced herself was terrible to her.

That her father should speak of her marriage with this man as an event that was impossible made her very unhappy.