I would respectfully suggest that some gayer residence than Fillettino would be a sovereign remedy for her illness." "Your tone and manner," replied the count, "forbid my resenting your interference.

I have no reason to doubt your affection for my daughter, but I must request you to abandon all idea of changing my designs.

If I choose to bring my daughter to a true sense of her position by somewhat rigorous methods, it is because I am aware that the frailty of reputation surpasses the frailty of woman.

I will say this to your credit, sir, that if she has not disgraced herself, it has been in some measure because you wisely forbore from pressing your suit while you were received as an instructor beneath my roof.

I am only doing my duty in trying to make her understand that her good name has been seriously exposed, and that the best reparation she can make lies in following my wishes, and accepting the honourable and advantageous marriage I have provided for her.