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"Hang it! I hate it! I can't abide it, Camilla. He's a nice lad,
though he is his mother's son; and Lenore's heart is set on him, and
I can't bear vexing the child."
"Lena cares for him only because she met him before she knew what
life is like. After one season she will understand what five
hundred a year means."
"Well, you ought to know your sister best; but if the lad has spoken
to her, Lena is not the girl to stand his getting his conge so
decidedly."
"Exactly; it would only lead to heroics, and deepen the mischief."
"Hang it! Then what do you want me to say?"
"Stand up for your rights, and reduce him to submission by
displeasure at not having been consulted. Then explain how there
can be no engagement at once; put him on his honour to leave her
free till after her birthday in November."
"What! have him dangling after her? That's no way to make her
forget him."
"She never will under direct opposition--she is too high-spirited
for that; but if we leave it alone, and they are unpledged, there is
a fair chance of her seeing the folly both for her and for him.


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