Who are you, that you are to play with two young people's affections and break their hearts at your will ?" "Recollect it's not his father that breaks the match off," old Sedley cried out.

"It's I that forbid it.

That family and mine are separated for ever.

I'm fallen low, but not so low as that: no, no.

And so you may tell the whole race--son, and father and sisters, and all." "It's my belief, sir, that you have not the power or the right to separate those two," Dobbin answered in a low voice; "and that if you don't give your daughter your consent it will be her duty to marry without it.