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...