I let you have your say, and looked to time to bring you to reason.

Come, Nell, you're not going against your father, are you ?" "I must, father, in this.

I'd rather die twenty deaths than marry that man.

There's nothing I wouldn't rather do." "Isn't there?
You'd rather see your father in gaol, I suppose, if it came to that ?" "See you in gaol!" cried the girl aghast.

"For heaven's sake, what do you mean, father?
What fear is there of your being sent to prison, because I won't marry Stephen Whitelaw?
I'm not a baby," she added, with a hysterical laugh; "you can't frighten me like that." "No; you're a very wise young woman, I daresay; but you don't know everything.