[The Squire of Sandal-Side by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Squire of Sandal-Side CHAPTER VIII 32/59
Father will think you have committed an act of treason against both church and state, and he will be ashamed to show his face among the Dale squires.
It is too bad! too bad for any thing!" and she covered her face, and cried bitterly. "She is so lovely, so good"-- "Nonsense! Were there no lovely English girls? no good English girls? Emily is ten times lovelier." "You know what you said." "I said it to please you." "Charlotte!" "Yes, I did,--at least, in a great measure.
It is easy enough to call a pretty girl an angel; and as for my promise to love your wife, of course I expected you would choose a wife suitable to your religion and your birth.
Suppose you selected some outlandish dress,--an Italian brigand's, for instance,--what would the neighboring gentlemen think of you? It would be an insult to their national costume, and they would do right to resent it.
Well, being who and what you are, you have no right to bring an Italian woman into Seat-Sandal.
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