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 ? '' asked Eric impatiently . `` Master , you did n't know my sister . We HAD to give in -- nobody could hold out against her . She was a strange woman -- and a terrible woman in many ways -- after her trouble . We were afraid to cross her for fear she would go out of her mind . ''
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