She is modest and good, I grant, and I never heard one syllable against her.

Ronald, let me appeal to your better judgment--are a moderate amount of rustic prettiness and shy modesty sufficient qualifications for your wife, who will have to take your mother's place ?" "They are quite sufficient to satisfy me," replied the young man.
"You have others to consider," said Lord Earle, quickly.
"I love her," interrupted his son; and again his father smiled.
"We know what it means," he said, "when boys of nineteen talk about love.

Believe me, Ronald, if I were to consent to your request, you would be the first in after years to reproach me for weak compliance with your youthful folly." "You would not call it folly," retorted Ronald, his face flushing hotly, "if Dora were an heiress, or the daughter of some--" "Spare me a long discourse," again interrupted Lord Earle.

"You are quite right; if the young girl in question belonged to your own station, or even if she were near it, that would be quite a different matter.

I am not annoyed that you have, as you think, fallen in love, or that you wish to marry, although you are young.