The most submissive where they love may be the most stubborn where
they do not love.--Sophy is stubborn to Mr. Rugge.--That injured man
summons to his side Mrs. Crane, imitating the policy of those
potentates who would retrieve the failures of force by the successes
of diplomacy.

Mr. Rugge has obtained his object. But now comes the question, "What
will he do with it?" Question with as many heads as the Hydra; and no
sooner does an author dispose of one head than up springs another.

Sophy has been bought and paid for: she is now, legally, Mr. Rugge's
property. But there was a wise peer who once bought Punch: Punch became
his property, and was brought in triumph to his lordship's house. To my
lord's great dismay, Punch would not talk. To Rugge's great dismay,
Sophy would not act.

Rendered up to Jasper Losely and Mrs. Crane, they had lost not an hour
in removing her from Gatesboro' and its neighbourhood. They did not,
however, go back to the village in which they had left Rugge, but
returned straight to London, and wrote to the manager to join them there.

Sophy, once captured, seemed stupefied: she evinced no noisy passion; she
made no violent resistance. When she was told to love and obey a father
in Jasper Losely, she lifted her eyes to his face; then turned them away,
and shook her head mute and credulous. That man her father! she, did not
believe it. Indeed, Jasper took no pains to convince her of the
relationship or win her attachment. He was not unkindly rough: he seemed
wholly indifferent; probably he was so. For the ruling vice of the man
was in his egotism. It was not so much that he had bad principles and