Now, when I heard this, I felt highly delighted at it, and said we should have them married, and so we shall.

Then your mother, in flaming indignation at this, enacted Vesuvius in a blaze, and there she stands ready for another eruption." "I wish you were in the bottom of Vesuvius, Lindsay; but you shall not have your way, notwithstanding." "So I am, my dear, every day in my life.

I have a little volcano of my own here, under the very roof with me; and I tell that volcano that I will have my own way in this matter, and that this marriage must take place if Alice is willing; and I'm sure she is, the dear girl." "Sir," said Woodward, addressing his step-father calmly, "I feel a good deal surprised that a thinking man, of a naturalise late temper as you are,--" "Yes, Harry, I am so." "Of such a sedate temper as you are, should not recollect the possibility of my mother, who sometimes takes up impressions hastily, if not erroneously--as the calmest of us too frequently do--of my mother, I say, considerably mistaking and unconsciously misrepresenting the circumstances I mentioned to her." "But why did you mention them exclusively to her ?" asked Charles; "I cannot see your object in concealing them from the rest of the family, especially from those who were most interested in the knowledge of them." "Simply because I had nothing actually decisive to mention.

I principally confined myself to my own inferences, which unfortunately my mother, with her eager habit of snatching at conclusions, in this instance, mistook for facts.

I shall satisfy you, Charles, of this, and of other matters besides; but we will require time." "I assure you, Harry, that if your mother does not keep her temper within some reasonable bounds, either she or I shall leave the house--and I am not likely to be the man to do so." "This house is mine, Lindsay, and the property is mine--both in my own right; and you and your family may leave it as soon as you like." "But you forget that I have property enough to support myself and them independently of you." "Wherever you go, my dear papa," said Maria, bursting into tears, "I will accompany you.