"
"Very well; I'll go to plaise you, miss, but I've made up my mind that
this marriage mustn't take place. Just think of it," she added, turning
to her master; "if you force her to marry this scamp of a lord, the girl
has sense, and spirit, and common decency, and of course she'll run away
from him; after that, it won't be hard to guess who she'll run to--then
there'll be a con. crim. about it, and it'll go to the lawyers, and from
the lawyers it'll go to the deuce, and that will be the end of it; and
all because you're a coarse-minded tyrant, unworthy of having such a
daughter. Oh, you needn't shake your hand at me. You refused to give me
satisfaction, and I'd now scorn to notice you. Remember I cowed you, and
for that reason never pretend to be a gentleman afther this."
Lucy then led her out of the room, which she left, after turning upon
her master a look of the proudest and fiercest defiance, and at the same
time the most sovereign contempt.
"Lucy," said her father, "is not this a fine specimen of a maid to have
in personal attendance upon you?"
"I do not defend her conduct now, sir," she replied; "but I cannot
overlook her affection, her truth, her attachment to me, nor the many
other virtues which I know she possesses.
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