I care not how many years I wait: say, only say that, if his character be cleared of all they have dared to cast upon it, I shall one day he his.
Do not turn from me, mother.

Oh, bid me not despond; and yet and yet, because he is poor, oh, would you, can you condemn me to despair ?" "Emmeline, Emmeline, do not wring my heart by these cruel words," replied Mrs.Hamilton, in a tone of such deep distress, that Emmeline's imploring glance sunk before it, and feeling there was indeed no hope, her weakened frame shook with the effort to restrain the bursting tears.
"Do not ask me to promise this; do not give me the bitter pain of speaking that which you feel at this moment will only add to your unhappiness.

You yourself, by the words you have repeated, behold the utter impossibility of such an union.

Why, why then will you impose on me the painful task of repeating it?
Could I consent to part with you to one who has not even a settled home to give you, whose labours scarcely earn sufficient to maintain himself?
You know not all the evils of such an union, my sweet girl.

You are not fitted to cope with poverty or care, to bear with that passionate irritability and restlessness which characterise young Myrvin, even when weightier charges are removed.