His anger would be light to the loss of your affection." "Bless your true heart!" exclaimed Lawson.

"I knew that I had not trusted it in vain.

And now, my dear girl, let me speak freely of the nature of my present visit.

With you, I believe, that all hope of your father's consent is vain.

But, he is a man of tender feelings, and loves you as the apple of his eye." Thus urged the tempter, and Caroline listened eagerly.
"If," he continued, "we precipitate a union--if we put the marriage rite between us and his strong opposition, that opposition will grow weak as a withering leaf.