A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one. Troubles soon arose. Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent,or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter.He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.