"I call it rank and brutal selfishness! They had no right to force such a sacrifice upon him.

He would have been content, I am sure, to have lived quietly in England--to have kept out of their way, to have conformed to their wishes in any reasonable manner.

But to rob him of home and friends and family and name--well, may God call them to account for it, and judge them as they judged him!" "I was against it," he said sadly, "always." "So Mr.Davenant told me," she said.

"I can't quite forgive you, Mr.
Cuthbert, for letting me grow up and be so shamefully imposed upon, but of course I don't blame you as I do the others.

I am only thankful that I have made myself independent of my relations.