Yet it has not been dependance; he is too generous to let us feel that.

On your father's death-bed, he was all in all to him--never leaving him; inducing him to turn his thoughts to the future opening before him.

He taught me where to look for comfort, and bore with me when in my impatient grief I refused to seek it.

He took you, then almost an infant, to his heart, has cherished you as his own, and now looks forward to the happiness of seeing you his son's wife; will you so cruelly disappoint him ?" "I will do whatever you ask me, dear mother," said Alice.

"I will never see Walter again, if that will content you.