3/13 If Frank Churchill had wanted to see his father, he would have contrived it between September and January. A man at his age--what is he ?--three or four-and-twenty--cannot be without the means of doing as much as that. You are the worst judge in the world, Mr.Knightley, of the difficulties of dependence. You do not know what it is to have tempers to manage." "It is not to be conceived that a man of three or four-and-twenty should not have liberty of mind or limb to that amount. He cannot want money--he cannot want leisure. |