And "poor Mr.Westcott" was not slow in finding out that "feelin' sorry for a feller was Katy's soft side, by George! he! he!" and having made this discovery he affected to be greatly afflicted at the treatment he received from Albert and from Miss Marlay; nor did he hesitate to impress Katy with the fact that he endured all these things out of pure devotion to her, and he told her that he could die for her, "by George! he! he!" any day, and that she mustn't ever desert him if she didn't want him to kill himself; he didn't care two cents for life except for her, and he'd just as soon go to sleep in the lake as not, "by George! he! he!" any day.

And then he rattled his keys, and sang in a quite affecting way, to the simple-minded Kate, how for "bonnie Annie Laurie," with a look at Katy, he could "lay him down and dee," and added touchingly and recitatively the words "by George! he! he!" which made his emotion seem very real and true to Katy; she even saw a vision of "poor Mr.Westcott" dragged out of the lake dead on her account, and with that pathetic vision in her mind she vowed she'd rather die than desert him.
And as for all the ills which her brother foreboded for her in case she should marry Smith Westcott, they did not startle her at all.

Such simple, loving natures as Katy Charlton's can not feel for self.

It is such a pleasure to them to throw themselves away in loving.
Besides, Mrs.Plausaby put all her weight into the scale, and with the loving Katy the mother's word weighed more even than Albert's.

Mrs.
Plausaby didn't see why in the world Katy couldn't marry as she pleased without being tormented to death.