His manner might have been that of a father who wheedled a child to do right, or a lover who sued on his own behalf; the better love, for that matter, is much the same in all relations of life.
This last plea evidently moved her just a little.

"I'm sorry, Mr.
Bates," she said.
"What are ye sorry for, Sissy ?" "That I'm to leave you." "But ye're not going.

Can't ye get that out of your head?
How will ye go ?" "In the boat, when they take father." At that the first flash of anger came from him.

"Ye won't go, if I have to hold ye by main force.

I can't go to bury your father.