19/23 Let her conduct have been what it may, it cannot make that right in you which would have been wrong, or that wrong which would have been right." "She's a nasty meddlesome cat." "I will not talk about her. What good would it do? You did promise your uncle most solemnly that you would never marry this young lady." "If I did, that ought to be enough." He was now waxing angry and his face was becoming red. He would bear a good deal from his uncle's widow, but he felt his own power and was not prepared to bear much more. |