I have never got any happiness outside Hintock that I know of, and I have suffered many a heartache at being sent away.

Oh, the misery of those January days when I had got back to school, and left you all here in the wood so happy.

I used to wonder why I had to bear it.

And I was always a little despised by the other girls at school, because they knew where I came from, and that my parents were not in so good a station as theirs." Her poor father was much hurt at what he thought her ingratitude and intractability.

He had admitted to himself bitterly enough that he should have let young hearts have their way, or rather should have helped on her affection for Winterborne, and given her to him according to his original plan; but he was not prepared for her deprecation of those attainments whose completion had been a labor of years, and a severe tax upon his purse.
"Very well," he said, with much heaviness of spirit.