I have told you that, upon my side, there is no objection to the marriage, but I have good reason to believe there will be much on the young lady's." "This is all beside the mark," says he.

"I will engage for her acceptance." "I think you forget, Mr.Drummond," said I, "that, even in dealing with myself you have been betrayed into two-three unpalatable expressions.

I will have none such employed to the young lady.

I am here to speak and think for the two of us; and I give you to understand that I would no more let a wife be forced upon myself, than what I would let a husband be forced on the young lady." He sat and glowered at me like one in doubt and a good deal of temper.
"So that this is to be the way of it," I concluded.

"I will marry Miss Drummond, and that blythely, if she is entirely willing.