Now, I tell you, that if you press this marriage between Charles and Alice Goodwin, I shall take this property into my own hands, shall make my will in favor of Harry, and you and your children may seek a shelter where you can find one." "Me and my children! Why, I believe you think you have no children but Harry here.

Well, you may do as you like with your property; I am not so poor but I and my children can live upon my own.

This house and place, I grant you, are yours, and, as for myself, I am willing to leave it to-day; a life of exclusion and solitude will be better than that which I lead with you." "Papa," said Maria, throwing her arms about his neck and bursting into tears, "when you go I shall go; and wherever you may go to, I shall accompany you." "Father," said Charles, in a choking voice, and grasping his hand as he spoke, "if you leave this house you shall not go alone.

Neither I nor Maria shall separate ourselves from you.

We will have enough to live on with comfort and decency." "Mother," said Harry, rising up and approaching her with a face of significant severity; "mother, you have forced me to say--and heaven knows the pain with which I say it--that I am ashamed of you.