The aunt refuses to let Mr.Frank in without the squire's permission.

Mr.Frank writes to his father, and says he will marry the girl as soon as he is of age, or shoot himself.

Up to town comes the squire and his wife and his daughter, and a lot of sentimentality, not in the slightest degree material to the present statement, takes places among them; and the upshot of it is that old Gatliffe is forced into withdrawing the word No, and substituting the word Yes.
I don't believe he would ever have done it, though, but for one lucky peculiarity in the case.

The governess's father was a man of good family--pretty nigh as good as Gatliffe's own.

He had been in the army; had sold out; set up as a wine-merchant--failed--died; ditto his wife, as to the dying part of it.