"Exactly what he said or did will never be known, but it was all he safely could to put his friend in a bad light.

It was because he wanted the young lady for himself; he was ambitious, and needed her money to help him on.
What he said made a good deal of impression on the father; but the daughter wouldn't believe it then--at any rate, she loved the doctor still, and would, as long as she knew he loved her." "Why didn't the other manage to make her think he didn't ?" "Well, sir, he did manage it," returned the professor, compressing his white-bearded lips, and lowering his eyebrows.

"He told the father some story of having met relations of his in Spain; told him the climate would cure him of all his ailments, without need of a physician, and persuaded him to make the journey at last.

The doctor heard of it first by a note written by his intended father-in-law.

It contained no request nor encouragement to accompany them--of course, the daughter was to go too; her father wouldn't separate from her.