José — page 137: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

130 : JOSE. no! where she feels impelled to say it. I have en- couraged no hopes whose non-fulfillment can be laid at my door. I simply treated with common civility, a gentleman who was your companion; I followed you into the wilderness because it was my filial duty, and I revolt at the thought that a father’s happiness can be bought at the price of a daughter’s misery.” - Brown arose, and paced the room. “Will you tell me,” he began at last, coming to a standstill; “why you object to a gentleman who even in the East, wherever he appeared, commanded respectful attention ?” “Nothing, father, except that he is to be my hus- band,” she replied, with deep earnestness. “For the sake of love, a woman may give up every com- fort of civilized society, and find ample reward; but if a loveless marriage is in itself something degrad- ing to a woman’s heart, where punishment is its utter desolation even in the midst of a crowded city, where shall a woman, in a solitude like this, find that inner comfort and courage which is to support her in her self-denial and to sustain her rectitude? Bid me for your sake to renounce all the world, father, and I shall be satisfied, but do not force a husband upon me. The mere thought fills me with horror.” “Moonshine!” growled the old man, resuming his walk. “What will become of you,” he continued, after a while, pausing; “when in consequence of your refusal I shall fill the subordinate places of a clerk, since my contract compells me to remain here; when I shall no longer be in a condition to maintain you in the position which you are accus- tomed to occupy ?” m EGomichooks sco