I don't approve of the engagement; and never shall." He would snatch up his hat, and hurry off to Maggie to be soothed.

His father knew where he was gone without being told; and was jealous of her influence over the son who had long been his first and paramount object in life.
He needed not have been jealous.

However angry and indignant Frank was when he went up to the moorland cottage, Maggie almost persuaded him, before half an hour had elapsed, that his father was but unreasonable from his extreme affection.

Still she saw that such frequent differences would weaken the bond between father and son; and, accordingly, she urged Frank to accept an invitation into Scotland.
"You told me," said she, "that Mr.Buxton will have it, it is but a boy's attachment; and that when you have seen other people, you will change your mind; now do try how far you can stand the effects of absence." She said it playfully, but he was in a humor to be vexed.
"What nonsense, Maggie! You don't care for all this delay yourself; and you take up my father's bad reasons as if you believed them." "I don't believe them; but still they may be true." "How should you like it, Maggie, if I urged you to go about and see something of society, and try if you could not find some one you liked better?
It is more probable in your case than in mine; for you have never been from home, and I have been half over Europe." "You are very much afraid, are not you, Frank ?" said she, her face bright with blushes, and her gray eyes smiling up at him.

"I have a great idea that if I could see that Harry Bish that Edward is always talking about, I should be charmed.