text:  No dear girl " he continued in a softer yet not less eager tone as he placed his arm round her "why not yield to the impulses of your own high disinterested spirit and fly with me as I have so often implored you? Be mine first in the sight of man and heaven and then plead for me afterwards with your father?" "I dare not--it would break his heart--my own is breaking fast already " and she trembled from head to foot in her attempts to subdue the sobbing of her bosom