If I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet I heard afterwords that she reported all the discourse to him,and that my father,after showing a great concern at it, said to her,with a sigh,"That boy might be happy if he would stay at home; but if he goes abroad,he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born: I can give no consent to it."