"
"Right, Horace," said the elder Mr. Dinsmore, approvingly, "let
her understand from the first that you are to be master; it is
always the best plan."
"Excuse me, Dinsmore," said Travilla; "but I must say that I think
a parent has no right to coerce a child into doing violence to its
conscience."
"Nonsense!" replied his friend, a little angrily. "Elsie is
entirely too young to set up her opinion against mine; she must
allow me to judge for her in these matters for some years to
come."
Eversham, who had been casting uneasy glances at Elsie all the
afternoon, now drawing his chair near to Adelaide, said to her in
an undertone, "Miss Adelaide, I am deeply sorry for the mischief I
have unwittingly caused, and if you can tell me how to repair it
you will lay me under lasting obligations."
Adelaide shook her head. "There is no moving Horace when he has
once set his foot down," she said; "and as to Elsie, I doubt
whether any power on earth can make her do what she considers
wrong."
"Poor little thing!" said Eversham, sighing; "where in the world
did she get such odd notions?"
"Partly from a pious Scotch woman, who had a good deal to do with
her in her infancy, and partly from studying the Bible, I believe.
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