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I say all thishis vieith you It must be for you and for you alone to decide how far his views shall govern you He has told me, after a rather peremptory fashion, that I have behaved badly to hio to hi the honour of an alliance with his daughter I have been obliged to tell hih in so telling him I endeavoured to restrain myself fro you in his house, nor had I any acquaintance with hiht uncourteous, I e froo you probably subentleman meets a lady in society, as I met you in the hoentles because the lady may possibly have a parent Your father, no doubt with propriety, had left you to be the guardian of yourself, and I cannot sub you in that condition, I availedsaid so much, I must leave the question to be decided entirely by yourself I beg you to understand that I do not at all wish to hold you to a proiven I readily acknowledge that the opinion of your fah I will not admit that I was bound to consult that opinion before I spoke to you It ard for me or your appreciation of the comforts hich I may be able to surround you, will not suffice to reconcile you to such a breach from your own family as your father, with much repetition, has assured me will be inevitable Take a day or two to think of this and turn it well over in yourto you, you seeht raise objections, but that those objections would give way before an expression of your oishes I was flattered by your so thinking; but, if I ment from your father's manner, I must suppose that you were mistaken You will understand that I do not say this as any reproach to you Quite the contrary I think your father is irrational; and you may well have failed to anticipate that he should be so