'
'Why, why, why? You say yourself that you liked him, that you thought that
you would accept him.'
'When it came to speaking the word, papa, I found that I could not
pretend to love him when I did not love him. I did not care for him, and
I liked somebody else so much better! I just told him the plain truth
and so he went away.'
The thought of all that he had lost, of all that might so easily have
been his, for a time overwhelmed Sir Marmaduke, and drove the very
memory of Hugh Stanbury almost out of his head; He could understand
that a girl should not marry a man whom she did not like; but he could
not understand how any girl should not love such a suitor as was Mr
Glascock. And had she accepted this pearl of men, with her position,
with her manners and beauty and appearance, such a connection would
have been as good as an assured marriage for every one of Sir
Marmaduke's numerous daughters. Nora was just the woman to look like a
great lady, a lady of high rank such a lady as could almost command men
to come and throw themselves at her unmarried sisters' feet.
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