But my doubts are not now of your love, but of your firmness in resisting a control at variance with your duty to yourself.

Your words reassure me, however; and now, though with no glad heart, I shall pass over the border, and hope for the better days which are to make us happy." "Not so fast, Master Forrester," exclaimed the voice of old Allen, emerging from the cover of the sycamore, to the shelter of which he had advanced unobserved, and had been the unsuspected auditor of the dialogue from first to last.

The couple, with an awkward consciousness, started up at the speech, taken by surprise, and neither uttering a word in reply to this sudden address.
"You must first answer, young man, to the charge of advising my daughter to disobedience, as I have heard you for the last half hour; and to elopement, which she had the good sense to refuse.

I thought, Master Forrester, that you were better bred than to be guilty of such offences." "I know them not as such, Mr.Allen.I had your own sanction to my engagement with Katharine, and do not see that after that you had any right to break it off." "You do not--eh?
Well, perhaps, you are right, and I have thought better of the matter myself; and, between us, Kate has behaved so well, and spoken so prettily to you, and obeyed my orders, as she should have done, that I'm thinking to look more kindly on the whole affair." "Are you, dear father ?--Oh, I am so happy!" "Hush, minx! the business is mine, and none of yours .-- Hark you, Mark.
You must fly--there's no two ways about that; and, between us, there will be a devil of a stir in this matter.

I have it from good authority that the governor will riddle the whole nation but he'll have every man, woman, and child, concerned in this difficulty: so that'll be no place for you.