erly. “The girl’s Women Sweatshirts father was an ignorant mad brute, who was within an inch of murdering me. The whole town knows it. And the brother is just as insolent, only in a cooler way. He forbade her seeing you, you say; he’ll break Off-White Women Flip Flops every bone in your body, for your greater happiness, if you don’t take care. But you seem to have made up your mind; you have counted the consequences, I suppose. Of course you are independent of me; you can marry this girl to-morrow, if you like; you are Men Skinny Jeans a man of five-and-twenty — you can go your way, and I can go mine. We need have no more to do with each other.”
Wakem Adidas Superstar Metal rose and walked toward the door, but something held him back, and instead of leaving the room, he walked up and down it. Philip was slow to reply, and when he spoke, his tone had a more incisive quietness and clearness than ever.
“No; I can’t marry Miss Tulliver, even if she would have me, if I have only Vans Plimsolls Shoes Women my own resources to maintain her Adidas NEO with. I have been brought up to no profession. I can’t offer her poverty as well as deformity.”
“Ah, there is a reason for your clinging to me, doubtless,” said Wakem, still bitterly, though Philip’s last words had given him a pang; they had stirred a feeling which had been a habit for a quarter of a century. He threw himself into the chair again.
“I expected all this,” said Philip. “I know these scenes are often happening between father and son. If I were like other men of my age, I might answer your angry words by still angrier; we might part; I should marry the woman Vans Sneakers Women I love, and have a chance of being as happy as the rest. But if it will be a satisfaction to you to annihilate the very object of everything you’ve done for me, you have an advantage over most fathers; you can completely deprive me of the only thing that would make my life worth having.”
Philip paused, but his father was silent.
“You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor Dame Adidas Hoodies&Track Tops worthy only of wandering savages.”
“Ridiculous rancor!” Wakem burst out. “What do you mean? Damn Dame Adidas Shirts&Tanks it! is a man to be horsewhipped by a boor and love him for it? Besides, there’s that cold, proud devil of a son, who said a word to me I shall not forget when we had the settling. He would be as pleasant a mark for Vans Flip Flops Women a bullet as I know, if he were worth the expense.”
“I don’t mean your resentment toward them,” said Philip, who had his reasons for some sympathy with this view of Tom, “though a feeling of revenge is not worth much, that you should care to keep it. I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has Unisex too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entered into the family quarrels.”
“What does that signify? We don’t ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. It’s altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver’s daughter.”
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