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Lydia has no brothers to step forward; and he might imagine, from

my father's behaviour, from his indolence and the little

attention he has ever seemed to give to what was going forward in

his family, that he would do as little and think as little about

it, as any father could do, in such a matter."

"But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love

of him, as to consent to live with him on any other terms than

marriage?"