human
You think so, eh? Well, I must say it, so I'd better have it out now, hatband or none! What do you think of the man who married my daughter, face and all?
gpt
I should think, quoth Tom, wondering who the happy man could be,
human
Then be as good as your word, and take her yourself. I've watched you this last week, and you'll make her a good husband. There, I have spoken; let me hear no more about it.
gpt
Well, thought he,
human
I fancied nothing could throw my steady old engine off the rails; but I am off them now, with a vengeance.
gpt
It is just like your generosity, sir; you have been a brother to my father; and now--
human
And now I'll be a father to you! Old Mark does nothing by halves.
gpt
But, sir, however lucky I should be in possessing Miss Armsworth's heart, what reason have I to suppose that I do so? I never spoke a word to her. I needn't say that she never did to me--which--
human
Of course she didn't, and of course you didn't. Should like to have seen you making love to my daughter, indeed! No, sir; it's my will and pleasure. I've settled it, and done it shall be! I shall go home and tell Mary, and she'll obey me--I should like to see her do anything else! Hoity, toity, fathers must be masters, sir! even in these fly-away new times, when young ones choose their own husbands, and their own politics, and their own hounds, and their own religion too, and be hanged to them!