They must have what they want, and they must have it, no matter who else may suffer." He rose and stood by her.
"But I don't want you to suffer," he said.

"Do you think it would be suffering to live with one who loved you, who would spend his whole life in making you happy, who would look upon you as the chief thing in the world, and have no other ambition than to make himself worthy of you ?" She looked up at him with a little smile.
"That would, doubtless, be all very pleasant for you," she said, "and in order that you might be pleased, you would have her give up so much.
That is the way with men! Now, here am I, born in the very end of the last century, and having had, consequently, no good out of that, and with but seventeen years in this century, and most of it passed in girlhood and in school; and now, when the world might open before me for a little, here you come along and tell me all that you would like to have, and that you would like me to give up." "But you should not think," said he, and that was all he said, for at that moment Kate Bonnet felt a little jerk at the end of her line, and then a good strong pull.
"I have a fish!" she cried, and sprang to her feet.

Then, with a swoop, she threw into the midst of the weeds and wild flowers a struggling fish which Martin hastened to take from the hook.
"A fine fellow!" he cried, "and he has arrived just in time to make a dainty dish for your supper." "Ah, no!" she said, winding the line about her rod; "if I were to take that fish to the house, it would sorely disturb Madam Bonnet.

She would object to my catching it; she would object to having it prepared for the table; she would object to having it eaten, when she had arranged that we should eat something else.

No, I will give it to you, Master Newcombe; I suppose in your house you can cook and eat what you please." "Yes," said he; "but how delightful it would be if we could eat it together." "Meaning," said she, "that I should never eat other fish than those from this river.