The girl, my daughter, has no choice left to exercise.

Her character is gone." "And I ask your pardon," said I, "but while this matter lies between her and you and me, that is not so." "What security have I!" he cried.

"Am I to let my daughter's reputation depend upon a chance ?" "You should have thought of all this long ago," said I, "before you were so misguided as to lose her; and not afterwards, when it is quite too late.

I refuse to regard myself as any way accountable for your neglect, and I will be browbeat by no man living.

My mind is quite made up, and come what may, I will not depart from it a hair's breadth.