text:  Her father had been to him the kindest of guardians: ought he to repay that kindness by destroying perhaps his proudest schemes? Ought he a man of fitting and becoming pride to put himself in the equivocal position which the poor suitor of a wealthy heiress must inevitably occupy? "He invites me " he would say to himself "he presses me to stay here week after week and month after month because the idea that I should seek to carry away his daughter never enters into his head