6/23 All letters, while we are abroad, must be brought to me; and if any come from him they shall be sent back to him. I do not wish to open his letters, but you cannot be allowed to receive them. When we are at Brussels I shall consult your uncle upon the subject. I am very sorry, Florence, that there should be this cause of quarrel between us; but it is your doing." "Oh, mamma, why should you be so hard ?" "I am hard, because I will not allow you to accept a young man who has, I believe, behaved very badly, and who has got nothing of his own." "He is his uncle's heir." "We know what that may come to. Mountjoy was his father's heir; and nothing could be entailed more strictly than Tretton. |