20/27 They are as strong now as ever. But she wishes it, and I have the utmost reliance on her constancy." "So have I," said Lopez. In such a position a father's thought is only as to his daughter's happiness and prosperity. It is not his own that he should consider. I hear you well spoken of in the outer world, and I do not know that I have a right to demand of my daughter that she should tear you from her affections, because--because you are not just such as I would have her husband to be. |