ton spoke for the first time. There has been nothing hidden from you.’
‘Nothing? Do you call your intimate acquaintance Maillot Ukraine with this man nothing? He may have delayed any actual declaration until my return — with an artful appearance of consideration for me; but some kind of love-affair must have been going on between you all the time.’
‘No, indeed, papa; until yesterday there was never anything but the most ordinary acquaintance. Mary knows —’
‘Pray don’t appeal to Miss Crofton,’ her father interrupted sternly. Marc Staal Tröja ‘Miss Crofton has done very wrong in encouraging this Peuterey Kobiety Twister Yd affair. Miss Crofton heard my opinion of Angus Egerton a long Serge Savard Tröja time ago.’
‘Mary has done nothing to encourage our acquaintance. It has been altogether a matter of accident from first to last. What have you said to Mr. Egerton, papa? Tell me at once, please.’
She said this with a quiet firmness, looking bravely up at him all the while.
‘I have told him that nothing would induce me to consent to such Oscar Emboaba Fotbalové Dres a marriage. I have forbidden him ever to see you again.’
‘That seems Frederik Gauthier Tröja very hard, papa.’
‘I thought you knew my opinion of Mr. Egerton.’
‘It would change if you knew more of him.’
‘Never. I might like him very well as a member of society; I could never approve of him as a son-in-law. Besides, I have other views for you — long-cherished views — which I hope you will not disappoint.’
‘I don’t know what you mean by that, papa; but I know that I can never marry any one except Mr. Egerton. I may never marry at all, if you refuse to change your decision upon this subject; but I am quite sure I shall never be the wife of any one else.’
Her Peuterey Kobiety Luna Yd father looked at her angrily. That hard expression about the lower part of the face, which I had noticed in his portrait and in himself from the very first, was intensified to-day. He looked a stern resolute man, whose will was not to be moved by a daughter’s pleading.
‘We shall see about that by and by,’ he said. ‘I am not going Maillot Russie to have my plans defeated by a girl’s folly. I have been a very indulgent father, but I am not a weak or yielding one. You will have to obey me, Milly, or you will find yourself a Tony Esposito Tröjor substantial sufferer by and by.’
‘If you mean that you will disinherit me, papa, I am quite willing that Juventus Fotbalové Dres you should do that,’ Milly answered resolutely. ‘Perhaps you think Mr. Egerton cares for my fortune. Put him to the test, papa. Tell him that you will give me nothing, and that be may take me on that condition.’
Augusta Darrell turned upon her stepdaughter with a sudden look in her face that was almost like a flame.
‘Do you think him so disinterested?’ she asked. ‘Have you such supreme confidence in his affection?’
‘Perfect confidence.’
‘And you do not believe that mercenary considerations have any weight with Maillot Cameroun him? You do not think that he is eager to repair his shattered fortunes? You think him all truth and devotion? He, a blas?? man of the world, of Patrick Marleau Tröja three-and-thirty; a man who has outlivedlinks:
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