Mr, Arnold Bennett's views on an up-to-date father listening to a request for lis daughter's hand.
"You want to marry Sissie. Therefore you respect her. Therefore you would not have invited her to marry unless you had been reasonably sure that you possess—ed the brains and the material means to provide for her physical and moral comfort not merely during the next year but till the end of her life...
"Again," resumed Mr. Prohack, ignoring Ozzie's hope. "Take the case of Sissie herself. The supreme aim of education was designed and superintended by myself. The supreme—aim of education should be to give sound judgment in the great affairs of life, and moral stamina to meet the crises which arrive when sound judgment is falsified by events. If I were to tell you that in my opinion Sissie's judgment of you as a future husband was unsound, it would be equivalent to admitting that my education
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