I do not want Aggie's future to be, in any way, associated with a showman's box.

I shall come here, sometimes, to see her, as you have kindly said I may, but I will not abuse the privilege by coming too often.

Perhaps you won't think a day, once every three months, to be too much ?" "I should think it altogether wrong and monstrous!" the squire exclaimed hotly.

"You have been virtually the child's father, for the last seven years.

You have cared for her, and loved her, and worked for her.