done i am not going to be crushed in everything depend upon it i ve been more used ban anybody ever was in this world hers she began to cry and sob and may expect the worst treatment from yon i know bat i don t care for that no i don t mr was made so desperate by the load tone in which she spoke that after looking about him in frantic uncertainty for some means of softening it he rose and shook her until the ornamental bow of hair upon her head nodded like a she was so very much astonished by this assault mat it really had the desired effect i do it again cried mr as he resumed his seat and fetched his breath if yon dare to talk in that loud manner how do you mean about being used if mr chose your sister in preference to you who could help it i should wish to know what have j to do with it wasn t i made a convenience of t my feelings with didn t he address himself to me first sobbed cherry clasping her hands and oh good gracious that i should live to be shook you live to be shaken again returned her parent if you drive me to that means of maintaining the decorum of this humble roof you surprise me i wonder you have not more spirit if mr didn t care for you how could you wish to have him i wish to have him exclaimed cherry i wish to here him pa then what are you making all this piece of work for retorted her father if you didn t wish to have him because i was treated with said cherry and because my own sister and my own father against me i am not angry with her said cherry looking much more angry than ever i pity her i m bony for her i know the fate that s in store for her with that wretch mr will survive your calling him a wretch my child i say said mr with returning re life and of but call him what you like and make an end of it not an end pa said charity no not an end that s not the only point on which we re not agreed i won t submit to it it s better you should know that at once no i won t submit to it indeed pa i am not quite a fool and i am not blind all i have got to say is i won t submit to it whatever she meant she shook mr now for his lame attempt to seem composed was melancholy in the last degree his anger changed to and his words were mild and my dear he said if in the short excitement of an angry moment i resorted to any means of a little outbreak calculated to injure you as well as myself � it s possible i may have done so perhaps i did � i ask your pardon a father asking pardon of his child said mr is i believe a spectacle to soften the most rugged nature but it didn t at all soften miss perhaps because her nature was not rugged enough on the contrary she persisted in saying over and over again that she wasn t quite a fool and wasn t blind and wouldn t submit to it you labour under some mistake my child said mr but i will not ask you what it is i don t desire to know no pray he added holding out his hand and colouring again let us avoid the subject my dear whatever it is it s quite right that the subject should be avoided between us sir said cherry but i wish to be able to avoid it altogether and consequently must beg you to provide me with a home mr looked about the room and said a home my child another home papa said cherry with increasing place me at mrs s or somewhere on an independent footing but i will not live here if such is to be the case it is possible that miss saw in mrs s a vision of enthusiastic men to fall in adoration at her feet it is possible that mr in his new born saw in the suggestion of that same establishment an easy means of himself from an irksome charge in the way of temper and it is undoubtedly a fact that in the attentive ears of mr the proposition did not sound quite like the dismal of all his hopes but he was a man of great feeling and acute sensibility and he squeezed his pocket handkerchief against his eyes with both hands � as such men always do especially when they are observed one of my birds mr said has left me for the stranger s breast the other would take wing to s well well what am i i don t know what i am exactly never mind even this remark made more pathetic perhaps by his breaking down in the middle of it had no effect upon charity she was grim rigid and but i have ever said mr sacrificed my children s happiness to my own � i mean my own happiness to my children s � and i will not begin to my life by other rules of conduct now if you can be happier at mrs s than in your father s house my dear go to mrs s do not think of me my girl said mr with emotion i shall get on pretty well no doubt miss charity who knew he had a secret pleasure in the contemplation of the proposed change suppressed her own and went on to the terms his views upon this subject were at first so very limited that another difference possibly another shaking 