I, on the other hand, was resolved to compromise the matter, cost what it might.
Albert dared to oppose me.

All my efforts to convert him to my views were useless.

Vainly I tried to touch those chords in his breast which I supposed the most sensitive.

He firmly repeated his intention to retire in spite of me, declaring himself satisfied, if I would consent to allow him a modest competence.

I again attempted to shake him, by showing him that his marriage, so ardently looked forward to for two years, would be broken off by this blow.