A Colonial Wooing
eyes and abundant, ill-concealed scorn in her lips, said, in a very different voice, "No, father, I am not a Friend in the sense thee advocates, and never can be. Thee does not remember that I am a Davenport and not a Watson, and among them only my father was a Friend, and not, I hope, of such an unbending type as so many of those that make up the Crosswicks meeting."
"Ruth, Ruth!" faintly spoke her mother.
"Thee is an unruly, rebellious child, that brings a scandal upon us," remarked Matthew Watson, and he turned to leave the room.
"Rebellious? Does thee not recall the fact that I did not come to America of my own accord? Does thee not know that when I have coaxed mother to tell me of my cousins in Yorkshire, that it has made me long to go to them, until I thought that that meant leaving mother, and then I was content again; and when thee took mother from her home, thee knew that I had also to come, or thy words would have prevailed nothing; and when since then have I been a source of discomfort to thee? It is as easy to talk with-
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