You have only done your duty.

I should not like to see a daughter of mine interested in that young man.

I fear he inherits his father's violent passions, yet his early training may bring the promised blessing.
Alice has that sort of mind, that is always influenced by what is passing at the time; remember what a child she was when Arthur left.

There are no more broken hearts now-a-days--sometimes they bend a little, but they can be straightened again.

If Alice gets well, you need not fear the future; though you know I disapprove of cousins marrying." "Doctor," said Mrs.Weston, "I know you have not given her up!" "I never give anybody up," said the doctor.