I dare say he might have; but I am not a man of determination and strength of character.

I never was, and I never shall be." "Do you consider it in the light of a settled question, then," said the Major, "that your daughter should marry young Hawker ?" "God knows.

She will please herself.

I spoke to her at first about encouraging him, and she began by laughing at me, and ended by making a scene whenever I spoke against him.

I was at one time in hopes that she would have taken a fancy to young Stockbridge; but I fear I must have set her against him by praising him too much.