The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
But be not precipitate--consider the grief, the anxieties, and the humiliations, that both your father and I have endured, and think, were you united to Ellen Frazer, supposing her father and friends would consent to so unequal a match, what would be her fate were you cut early off, as your father was?--It is the thought of that--of what I myself, with you and for you, have borne, which weighs so grievously at this moment on my spirits.'