Kilmeny is as determined as her mother when once she makes up her mind . She has always been good and obedient for the most part , but once or twice we have found out that there is no moving her if she does resolve upon anything . When her mother died Thomas and I wanted to take her to church . We could not prevail on her to go . We did not know why then , but now I suppose it was because she believed she was so very ugly . It is because she thinks so much of you that she will not marry you . She is afraid you would come to repent having married a dumb girl . Maybe she is right -- maybe she is right . '' `` I can not give her up , '' said Eric stubbornly . `` Something must be done . Perhaps her defect can be remedied even yet . Have you ever thought of that ? You have never had her examined by a doctor qualified to pronounce on her case , have you ? '' `` No , Master , we never took her to anyone . When we first began to fear that she was never going to talk Thomas wanted to take her to Charlottetown and have her looked to . He thought so much of the child and he felt terrible about it . But her mother would n't hear of it being done . There was no use trying to argue with her . She said that it would be no use -- that it was her sin that was visited on her child and it could never be taken away . '' `` And did you give in meekly to a morbid whim like that ? ''
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