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Now, this doesn't look well. There
seems to be something capricious, perhaps selfish, in it. Still, knowing
the goodness of their hearts, as I do, I cannot but feel that there
is something like a mystery in it. I had set my heart upon a marriage
between Charles and Alice before ever she came into the property
bequeathed to her. In this I was not selfish certainly. I looked only to
their happiness. Yes, and my mind is still set upon this marriage, and
it shall go hard with me or I will accomplish it."
"Father," said Charles, "if you regard or respect me, I entreat of you
to abandon any such project. Ferdora O'Connor is now the favorite there.
He is rich and I am poor; no, the only favor I ask is that you will
never more allude to the subject in my hearing."
"But I will allude to it, and I will demand an explanation besides,"
replied Lindsay.
"Father," observed Harry, "I trust that no member of this family is
capable of an act of unparalleled meanness. I, myself, pleaded my
brother's cause with that heartless and deceitful girl in language which
could not be mistaken.


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