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I said he had not done with the subject—that day he looked at me and did not talk; but I did not expect anything so formidable as this.

He has had an uncle die—that is the short of it; he went away for two days to the funeral. When he came back he brought a piece of dismal news and this preposterous proposition. It seems that this uncle must needs go and leave him all the money he had. I don't fancy it is much—I would n't ask. But, whatever it is, Dana feels at liberty to marry on it. With what there is of Mother's settled on me we should have enough without depending on Father, it seems; and Dana thinks I ought to love him enough to be willing to live somehow, if not as I am used to living—and so on. I did not tell him that I would be willing to live anyhow—I don't think that at all necessary. I did not say how little I think about money, and things like that he knows. I did not say that I could starve and be quite happy. I said that I did not wish to be married.

He says that does not make any difference. He says it has nothing to do with the subject.