Your own wise
and shrewd discrimination has led you to accept him at his face value
and your estimate of him has not been a mistaken one. I do not think
there is a young man in the world of greater sterling worth than the
one your daughter has chosen for a husband."
At the firm emphasis on the word _daughter_, Zenas Henry's jaw relaxed.
"Of course, you feel the same anxiety for your child that I feel for
mine, and realize how much a woman's happiness depends on the man into
whose hands she puts her life. In giving up Cynthia I know what it
means to you to give up Delight. We parents cannot expect to have all
the joy and none of the suffering that comes with having children,
however." He looked at Zenas Henry and a quiet sympathy passed from
one man to the other. "But we should be selfish indeed were we to deny
to those we love the best gift heaven has to bestow. It is making
others happy in their way, not in ours, that tests our real affection
for them. And so I know that underneath all your personal regrets you
rejoice in the prospect of Delight's marriage as I rejoice in
Cynthia's.
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