Have I not told you that you can love your husband as much as you please?Is it not a father's duty to direct the affections of his child as I wish to do, and is it not the child's first obligation to submit to its father's will and guidance?...
Afterwards you can cut up as much as you please, and little we'll care.But I've got too much at stake right now in getting to land to have any silly ice mountain turn over on me....
Therefore, brood no more over that sad time; it is forever past and gone.Think of your young love as much as you please; but think of her in heaven.It is not well to think forever of the Crucifixion and never of the Ascension; forever of the martyrdom that was but for a moment, and never of the glory that is from everlasting to everlasting....
Perhaps that is the reason your prayers for me have not met with much attention.Let us stick to business: you may talk shop as much as you please afterwards....
Then you can judge whether or not I'm right in the decision I have come to as the result of my thinkings.You can tell my wife as much as you please -- of the details, I mean.Perhaps, you had better soften them to her, for you know as well as I do -- or better -- that her impulsive, quixotic disposition might lead her into worse mistakes than it has done already....
If it goes to zero I shall still have a little money left, and I shall have the income from the old farm -- but I shall not have the hardihood to ask for the hand of Grace Harding.You may talk as much as you please but money is a commanding factor in love and marriage.It is all very well for a wealthy man to fall in love and marry a poor girl, but it is an entirely different thing for a poor man to aspire to the hand and heart of a wealthy woman....
