Your words
reassure me, however; and now, though with no glad heart, I shall pass
over the border, and hope for the better days which are to make us
happy."
"Not so fast, Master Forrester," exclaimed the voice of old Allen,
emerging from the cover of the sycamore, to the shelter of which he had
advanced unobserved, and had been the unsuspected auditor of the
dialogue from first to last. The couple, with an awkward consciousness,
started up at the speech, taken by surprise, and neither uttering a word
in reply to this sudden address.
"You must first answer, young man, to the charge of advising my daughter
to disobedience, as I have heard you for the last half hour; and to
elopement, which she had the good sense to refuse. I thought, Master
Forrester, that you were better bred than to be guilty of such
offences."
"I know them not as such, Mr. Allen. I had your own sanction to my
engagement with Katharine, and do not see that after that you had any
right to break it off.
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