Your kindred truly mean well by you--see how fair I am--
but if they could carry out their intentions and marry you to that
spoiled boy, you would be one of the most unhappy of women. If he is
capable of trying to force you to marry him he would always be
imperious and unreasonable. You would be a hard one to manage, Miss
Baron, by the words, You must, and You shall; but I think Please
would go a good way if your reason and conscience were satisfied."
"Indeed, sir, you are right. If I loved my cousin I would marry him
even though he were so badly wounded as to be helpless all his life.
But my whole soul protests against the thought of marriage to any
one. Why, sir, you can't know how like a child I've always been
treated. I feel that I have a right to remain as I am, to see more
of the world, to know more and enjoy more of life. I can scarcely
remember when I was truly happy, so strictly have I been brought up.
You would not believe it, but poor old Aun' Jinkey, my mammy, is
almost the only one who has not always tried to make me do something
whether I wish to or not.
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