fulfilling the destiny allotted to them by their Great Creator. Marry
them, if worthy suitors offer, lest they remain single and unprotected
after your departure. Marry them, lest they say, in their bitter
disappointment and loneliness, 'Our parents thought only of their own
comfort and convenience. We now find that our welfare and settlement in
life was disregarded!' But I am sure my hard-hearted comrade in years,"
continues this aged writer, "that you are more generous to your own dear
girls than to dream of preventing the completion of their own little
romance in order to keep them at home, pining as your waiting minds."