Your brother's tastes are expensive; and what with his education, and yours, and the allowances I have made you both, it is as much as I have been able to do to keep up our position.

And there are your sisters to be provided for.

The idea of your falling in love with this young woman is monstrous." "Young lady, Father.

She is a clergyman's daughter." "I won't hear of such a thing--I will not hear of it for a moment; and if you persist in this mad folly, I tell you, fairly, that from this moment I shall have nothing more to say to you! You have to choose between me, and this penniless beggar." "I am sorry you put it in that way, sir.

My choice is made.