"Fauquier Cary and your dear father, my brother Henry, settled it when you were born and Fauquier's son was a lad at Maury's school! When Henry died, and Fauquier Cary died, my brother Edward here and I said to each other that we would see the matter out! So we will, by God!" "Gently, Dick! Jacqueline, child, you know how dear you are to us, and how the future and the happiness of you and of Unity and of Deb is our jealous care--" "Fauquier Cary was as noble a man as ever breathed," cried the other, "and his son's his image! There's no better blood in Virginia--and the land beside--" "It does not matter about the land, Jacqueline," said Uncle Edward, "though God forbid that I should depreciate good land--" "Land's land," quoth Colonel Dick, "and good blood's gospel truth!" "Bah! it's nature's truth!" said Uncle Edward.

"Jacqueline, my dear, our hearts are set on this match.

Mr.Ludwell Cary asked your uncle's permission to speak to you, and your uncle gave it gladly, and neither he nor I ever dreamed--" "Of course we didn't," broke in the other.

"We didn't dream that Jacqueline could be unreasonable or ungrateful, and we don't dream it now! Nor blind.

Ludwell Cary's a man and a gentleman, and the woman who gets him is lucky!" "We approved his suit, Jacqueline, and we hoped to be happy to-day in your happiness--" "And in he comes at midnight last night, with his father's own look on his face, and what does he say to Edward and me, sitting here, waiting, with a thousand fancies in our heads?
'Miss Churchill will not have me,' says he, 'and you who have been so good to me, are to be good still, and not by word or look reproach her or distress her.