Anger againſt him at all. He hath no Obligations to me, nor do I think he was under any Neceſſity of afking my Conſent, ſince the Woman is, as I have ſaid, Sui Juris, and of a proper Age to be entirely anſwerable only to herſelf for her Conduct.’
The Doctor repeated his Accuſations againſt his Brother, accuſed Mr. Allworthy of too great Lenity, and declared that he ſhould never more be brought either to ſee, or to own him for his Relation. He then launched forth into a Panegyric on Allworthy’s Goodneſs, into the higheſt Encomiums on his Friendſhip; and concluded, by ſaying, He ſhould never forgive his Brother for having put the Place which he bore in that Friendſhip, to a Hazard.
Allworthy thus anſwer’d: ‘Had I conceived any Diſpleaſure againſt your Brother, I ſhould never have carried that Reſentment to the Innocent: But, I aſſure you, I have no ſuch Diſpleaſure. Your Brother appears to me to be a Man of Senſe and Honour. I do not diſapprove the Taſte of my Siſter; nor will I doubt but that ſhe is equally the Object of his Inclinations. I have always thought‘Love
