I feel in my
very soul that it's all wrong and unjust."
"But, my dear, you won't feel so after you are a wife and safe in
your own home. You will then feel that you have reached woman's true
place and sphere, without incurring the risks and misfortunes which
befall so many. Your guardians might have shown more tact, perhaps,
but they meant well, and they wish you well, and are seeking only
your welfare. They feel in honor bound to do what is best for you,
and not what, in your inexperience, you may wish at the moment. As
for my son, a warmer-hearted fellow does not breathe. He loves you
fondly. You can influence him, you can control him as no other can,
you have the strongest hold upon him."
"Alas!" said the girl, divining the ultimate truth, "you love him
blindly and wholly; you would sacrifice me, yourself and everything
to him, and because he has always had everything his own way, he
would have me in spite of the whole protest of my being. No one
truly cares for me; no one understands me.
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