"His father's harshness is not George's fault, sir. Your daughter's love for him is as much your doing as his. Who are you, that you are to play with two young people's affections and break their hearts at your will?"
"Recollect it's not his father that breaks the match off," old Sedley cried out. "It's I that forbid it. That family and mine are separated for ever. I'm fallen low, but not so low as that: no, no. And so you may tell the whole race--son, and father and sisters, and all."

"His father's harshness is not George's fault, sir. Your daughter's love for him is as much your doing as his. Who are you, to play with two young people's affections and break their hearts at your will?"
"I forbid the match," old Sedley cried. "That family and mine are separated for ever. I'm fallen low, but not so low as that."
