They will follow you, and our end will
then be answered. Unless you do this, they would linger on in this place
without an object, even if permitted, which is very doubtful, to hold
their ground--enjoying life as a vegetable, and dead before life itself
is extinct."
"Spare your speech, Mark--on this point you urge me in vain," was the
firm response of the maiden. "Though I feel for you as as I feel for
none other, I also feel that I have other ties and other obligations,
all inconsistent with the step which you would have me take. I will not
have you speak of it further--on this particular I am immoveable."
A shade of mortification clouded the face of Forrester as she uttered
these words, and for a moment he was silent. Resuming, at length, with
something of resignation in his manner, he continued--
"Well, Kate, since you will have it so, I forbear; though, what course
is left for you, and what hope for me, if your father continues in his
present humor, I am at a loss to see.
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