"The affection of a husband restore my health! oh, no, no, it would break my heart at once, and you would send me from you but to die.

Mother, oh, let me stay with you.

Do not let my father command my obedience; in everything else I will obey but in this." She hid her face in Mrs.Hamilton's bosom, and wept bitterly.
"We will command nothing that can make you miserable, my own," replied her mother, soothingly.

"But you will love him, my Emmeline, you will love him as he loves you; his fond affection cannot fail to make you happy.

You will learn to know him--to value his noble virtues, his honourable principles.