Posthumous Records of a London Clergyman (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ME. P 'S DISAPPOINTMENT. 33 CHAPTER III. Mr. P s Disappointment.?The Father Reconciled. Novel Sentiments. Singular Mode Op CommuniCation.? An Unexpected Discovery.? Consumption. ? A Lady's Vanity. ? Her Confession Of Faith.? Fallacies. When I reported to the father the result of this interview, he was anything but satisfied. I related to him the whole of our conversation, and he was as much surprised as mysel to hear that his daughter was in love, and as much puzzled to guess with whom. Mr. P was in ecstasies when he heard her decision, but they were the ecstasies of indignation, wrath, and disappointed affection. He talked of himself as an injured man, and of the fair girl who had, in such a summary manner, solved the problem of his conjugal chances, as one who had unjustifiably arranged her own free choice in hostility against him, and he vehemently protested that, out of sheer spite, he would make his will, leave his money to build cottages for houseless vagrants, and die a repining bachelor. He was, in truth, bitterly mortified at his repulse. He vowed never to enter the house again, in which his pride had been so unexpectedly humbled. He talked of blighted hopes, and worked himself into a rhapsody. He was angry with the father for not exercising his authority, and enforcing obedience 34 THE FATHER RECONCILED. from his refractory child; he was angry with the mother, who did not scold her husband into a compliance with the wishes of this autumnal lover, and be was still more angry with me, because he took it into his jealous head, that, instead of advocating his cause, I had been pleading against him. So fierce was his hostility, that he came no more to church, but had his pew stripped of its furniture, and locked up. He refused-to pay his tithes, decl...