herself to her father, she had found herself bound to measure it, so that more should not be exacted from her than duty required.  She had long known that her father would fain make her a slave for his own purposes, and that if she put no limits to her own obedience he certainly would put none.  She had drawn no comparison between him and other fathers, or between herself and other daughters, because she had never become conversant with the ways of other families.  After a fashion she had loved him, because nature creates love in a daughter’s heart; but she had never respected him, and had spent the best energies of her character on a resolve that she would never fear him.  ’He may cut me into pieces, but he shall not make me do for his advantage that...