`` I simply mean that I am going to invite my father to my wedding , '' answered Rachel quietly . `` Not in my house , '' cried Mrs. Spencer , her lips as white as if her fiery tone had scathed them . Rachel leaned forward , folded her large , capable hands deliberately on the table , and gazed unflinchingly into her mother 's bitter face . Her fright and nervousness were gone . Now that the conflict was actually on she found herself rather enjoying it . She wondered a little at herself , and thought that she must be wicked . She was not given to self-analysis , or she might have concluded that it was the sudden assertion of her own personality , so long dominated by her mother 's , which she was finding so agreeable . `` Then there will be no wedding , mother , '' she said . `` Frank and I will simply go to the manse , be married , and go home . If I can not invite my father to see me married , no one else shall be invited . '' Her lips narrowed tightly . For the first time in her life Isabella Spencer saw a reflection of herself looking back at her from her daughter 's face -- a strange , indefinable resemblance that was more of soul and spirit than of flesh and blood . In spite of her anger her heart thrilled to it . As never before , she realized that this girl was her own and her husband 's child , a living bond between them wherein their conflicting natures mingled and were reconciled . She realized too , that Rachel , so long sweetly meek and obedient , meant to have her own way in this case -- and would have it . `` I must say that I ca n't see why you are so set on having your father see you married , '' she said with a bitter sneer . `` HE has never remembered that he is your father . He cares nothing about you -- never did care . '' Rachel took no notice of this taunt . It had no power to hurt her , its venom being neutralized by a secret knowledge of her own in which her mother had no share .
`` Either I shall invite my father to my wedding , or I shall not have a wedding , '' she repeated steadily , adopting her mother 's own effective tactics of repetition undistracted XXXXX argument .
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