Bring her yourself if you are afraid of anything.

No plant ever becomes strong by being kept always away from the winds of heaven.' To this he could not assent at the time.

He knew that it was impossible to assent without consulting his wife.

But he was brought so far round as to think that if nothing but his own consent were wanting, his girl would be allowed to go and meet the ogre.
'I suppose we ought to wish that Hester should be married some day,' he said to his wife about this time.

She shuddered and dashed her hands together as though deprecating some evil,--some event which she could hardly hope to avoid but which was certainly an evil.