A fine system of obedience truly! They cannot act without judging, more or less, be they obedient or disobedient: and the better they judge the better will they perform their duty. There may be and there have been mistaken parents, who have commanded their children to be guilty even of crimes. And what is that to me? Upon my word, you are a very polite young lady! A very extraordinarily polite miss! God forbid, my dear papa, that you should imagine I think you one of those parents. I really don't know nor don't care, madam, what you think me.--My plans, indeed!--Disapproved by you! If I saw any person under a dangerous mistake, misled, wronged, preyed upon by the self-interested, should I not be indolent or cowardly, nay should I not be criminal, if I did not endeavour to convince such a person of his error? And what should I be if this person were my father? Upon my honour, miss, you take intolerable liberties! The license of your tongue is terrible! It were better, sir, that I should subject myself to your displeasure, and make you think unkindly of me, than that others, who pretend to be your servants and your humble but friendly advisers, should injure--should--I know not what! We have often heard of stewards, who have acted the mortgagee to their own masters. [This hint was a thunder stroke. Sir Arthur was wholly disconcerted. His mind apparently made several attempts to recover itself; but they were all ineffectual.] Well, well--I, I--I know what the meaning of all this is. You--You are vexed at being disappointed of your journey--But make yourself easy, child; you shall go: you shan't be disappointed. 'Tis true, sir, I wish to visit Paris; but not if it will be in the least inconvenient to you, in money affairs. Though I own I should indeed be vexed to see the small sum you had appropriated for this journey wrested from you, to throw up a hill, or build a fantastic temple in some place where its very situation would render it ridiculous. Upon my word!--Was ever the like of this heard?--Don't I tell you, you shall go? Indeed, sir, going is but a small part of the subject: there is another point, which, if I could but gain, would give me infinitely more pleasure. Pshaw! Girl! I can't stay to argue points with you now! I tell you, you shall go. I give you my word you shall go; and so let's have no more of it.--Do you hear, Anna? I am too old to be schooled. I don't like it! Mind me! I don't like it! I am very sorry, sir, that I cannot find words to speak the truth which would be less offensive. I tell you again there is no truth to be spoken! Have not I promised you shall go? There's an end of the business. You shall go.