The Illegal Marriage — page 83: what you’re looking at

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THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. 75 than usual and felt that the time had come for him to say a few words to her. “Miss Morgan,” he began, as they passed into the hall together, “can I have a few words of private conversation with you?” “Certainly, doctor. Let us sit out here.” She led the way to a rustic sofa upon the veranda. “Pardon me, Miss Morgan, if I speak plainly, but I must say that your opposition to him is rapidly killing your father.” Without a word, she bowed her head and wept. All were against her. For a whim—a prejudice, her father would not let her marry the man to whom she was pledged, and the whole world, she said to herself, was against him. The idea that he was being persecuted for her sake, came into her mind, and her generous nature rose at once to do battle in. his defense. But was it true that she was really killing her father? For his sake then must she dissemble. “Doctor, I am a lone girl, without a female relative in the world. Since my girlhood, I have had no one to advise me. In what I have done I feel that I am right; and tell me, doctor, tell me what I can do.” “Miss Morgan, I do not like Alfred Guerry, and I believe——” “Doctor,” she interrupted, “I cannot hear you speak ill of him. Speak of me—what can I do?” “At least I can gain time,” the doctor thought, “and in the end I can convince her, though she will not hear me now.” “JT have already given you my advice,” he said to her; “if you wish to keep your father alive you Comicbooks (ele)