But look you here, Mary;--she has always been a very good child to you--" "Indeed she has." "And a word from you would go a long way with her,--as it ought.

If she knows that you would like her to marry her cousin, it will make her think it her duty--" "Ah! but that is just what I cannot try to make her think." "Will you let me speak, Mary?
You take me up and scold me before the words are half out of my mouth.

Of course I know that in these days a young lady is not to be compelled into marrying anybody;--not but that, as far as I can see, they did better than they do now when they had not quite so much of their own way." "I never would take upon myself to ask a child to marry any man." "But you may explain to her that it is her duty to give such a proposal much thought before it is absolutely refused.

A girl either is in love or she is not.

If she is, she is ready to jump down a man's throat; and that was the case with Lily." "She never thought of the man till he had proposed to her fully." "Well, never mind now.