But you overrate the impediments which lie betwixt us--they must and shall give way." "So you said before," answered Alice, "and with what probability, your own account may show.

You dared not to mention the subject to your own father--how should you venture to mention it to mine ?" "That I will soon enable you to decide upon.

Major Bridgenorth, by my mother's account, is a worthy and an estimable man.

I will remind him, that to my mother's care he owes the dearest treasure and comfort of his life; and I will ask him if it is a just retribution to make that mother childless.

Let me but know where to find him, Alice, and you shall soon hear if I have feared to plead my cause with him." "Alas!" answered Alice, "you well know my uncertainty as to my dear father's residence.