He did not think kindly of her.

Lady Blandish's encomiums of her behaviour and her beauty annoyed him.

Forgetful that he had in a measure forfeited his rights to it, he took the common ground of fathers, and demanded, "Why he was not justified in doing all that lay in his power to prevent his son from casting himself away upon the first creature with a pretty face he encountered ?" Deliberating thus, he lost the tenderness he should have had for his experiment--the living, burning youth at his elbow, and his excessive love for him took a rigorous tone.

It appeared to him politic, reasonable, and just, that the uncle of this young woman, who had so long nursed the prudent scheme of marrying her to his son, should not only not be thwarted in his object but encouraged and even assisted.

At least, not thwarted.