do it she said i can t bend my pride to such a job will you write for me i i don t see why i should be the one particularly as i think it premature but you have not quarrelled with my father as i have done well no but there is a long standing which would make it odd in me to write wait till we are married and then i will write not till then then i suppose i must you don t know my father he might forgive me marrying into any other family without his knowledge but he thinks so of yours on account the well beloved of the trade that he would never pardon till the day of his death my becoming a secretly i didn t see it at first this remark caused an unpleasant jar on the mind of despite his independent artistic position in london he was to the simple old parent who had held out for so many years against s trade and whose money had educated and maintained as an art student in the best schools so he begged her to say no more about his family and she silently resumed her letter giving an address at a post office that their quarters might not be discovered at least just yet no reply came by return of post but rather some letters for that had arrived at her father s since her departure were sent on in silence to the address given she opened them one by one till on reading the last she exclaimed good gracious and burst into laughter what is it asked began to read the letter aloud it came from a faithful lover of hers a youthful gentleman who stated that he was soon a young man of twenty going to start for england to claim his darling according to her word she was half half concerned what shall i do she said do my dear girl it seems to me that there is only one thing to do and that a very obvious thing tell him as soon as possible that you are just on the point of marriage thereupon wrote out a reply to that effect helping her to shape the phrases as gently as possible i repeat her letter concluded that i had quite forgotten i am deeply sorry but that is the truth i have told my intended husband everything and he is looking over my shoulder as i write said when he saw this set down you might leave out the last few words they are rather an extra for the poor boy it is not that dear why does he want to come me you ought to be very proud that i have put you in my letter at all you said yesterday that i was conceited in declaring i might have married that science man i told you of but now you see there was yet another available � the well beloved he gloomily well i don t care to hear about that to my mind this sort of thing is decidedly unpleasant though you treat it so lightly � well she i have only done half what you have done what s that i have only proved false through but you have while remembering oh yes of course you can use as a retort but don t vex me about her and make me do such an unexpected thing as regret the she shut her mouth tight and her face flushed the next morning there did come an answer to the letter asking her parents consent to her union with him but to s amazement her father took a line quite other than the one she had expected him to take whether she had herself or whether she had not seemed a question for the future rather than the present with him a native born when old island e views prevailed in families he was fixed in his of her marriage with a hated he did not consent he would not say more till he a young man of twenty could see her if she had any sense at all she would if still unmarried return to the home from which she had evidently been he would then see what he could do for her in the desperate circumstances she had made for herself otherwise he would do nothing could not help being sarcastic at her father s evidently low estimate of him and his and took at his i am the one deserving of satire if anybody she said i begin to feel i was a foolish girl to run away from a father for such a reason as a little scolding because i had exceeded my allowance i advised you to go back in a sort of way not in the right tone you spoke most contemptuously of my father as a merchant i couldn t speak otherwise of him than i did i m afraid knowing what � what have you to say against him nothing � to you beyond what is matter of common everybody knows that at one time he made it the ness of his life to ruin my father and the way thb he to me in that letter shows that his enmity still continues that ruined by an open handed man like my father said she it is like your people s to say that s eyes flashed and her face burned with an angry heat the beauty which this warmth might have brought being killed by the of countenance that came this temper is too i could give you every step of the proceeding in detail � anybody could � the getting the one by one and everything my father only holding his own by the most desperate courage there is no facts our parents relations are an ugly fact in the circumstances of us two people who 