"I simply want to know what you'd do if you loved a girl whose mother means to send her to London to get rid of me and marry her to that yawning Elliscombe fellow who was over here.

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What would you do?
She's too young to stand much of a siege in London--some Englishman will get her if he persists--and I mean to make her love me." "Oh! Doesn't she ?" "Y-es.