[My Lady’s Money by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady’s Money CHAPTER XVI 18/24
That's my view of it: I think for myself.
What does it matter to me whether you're the daughter of a Duke or the daughter of a Dairyman? It isn't your father I want to marry--it's you.
Listen to reason, there's a dear! We have only one question to settle before we go back to your aunt.
You wouldn't answer me when I asked it a little while since.
Will you answer now? _Do_ you like me ?" Isabel looked up at him timidly. "In my position, sir," she asked, "have I any right to like you? What would your relations and friends think, if I said Yes ?" Hardyman gave her waist a little admonitory squeeze with his arm "What? You're at it again? A nice way to answer a man, to call him 'Sir,' and to get behind his rank as if it was a place of refuge from him! I hate talking of myself, but you force me to it.
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