Most earnestly had she entreated him, over and over again, not to leave them.
"Home will no longer be like home, dear father, when you are far absent," she said to him, pleadingly, a few days before the appointed time for departure had come.

"Do not go away." "It is no desire to leave home that prompts the journey, Fanny, love," he answered, drawing his arm around her and pressing her closely to his side.

"At the call of duty, none of us should hesitate to obey." "Duty, father ?" Fanny did not comprehend the meaning of his words.
"It is the duty of all men to thoroughly comprehend what they are doing, and to see that their business is well conducted at every point." "I did not before understand that you had business in that distant country," said Fanny.
"I am largely interested there," replied Mr.Markland, speaking as though the admission to her was half-extorted.
"Not with Mr.Lyon, I hope ?" said Fanny, quickly and earnestly.

It was the first time she had mentioned his name since the day his cold allusion to her had nearly palsied her heart.
"Why not with Mr.Lyon, my child?
Do you know any thing in regard to him that would make such a connection perilous to my interest ?" Mr.
Markland looked earnestly into the face of his daughter.

Her eyes did not fall from his, but grew brighter, and her person became more erect.