I can not agree to it." "What do you say ?" the Englishman asked in a tone of astonishment, and his query was emphasized with a firm tap of his cane on the pavement.
"I hate to displease you, sir, but if I made such a promise, I would be sure to break it." "Then, sir, I shall see to it that you have no opportunity to oppose my will." In spite of his fine restraint, the eyes of the Baronet glowed with anger, as he quickly turned from the young man and hurried away.
"Here is more tyranny," the American thought as he went in the opposite direction.

"But I do not believe he can keep us apart." "I walked on and on," he wrote to a friend.

"Never had I felt such a sense of loss and loneliness and dejection.

I almost resented the inflexible tyranny of my own spirit which had turned him against me.

I accused myself of a kind of selfishness in the matter.