I mean that I love her to distraction at this present moment, and will die myself, or kill the man who possesses her before me.' 'YOU marry the greatest heiress and the noblest blood in England ?' said Lord George haughtily.
'There's no nobler blood in Europe than mine,' answered I: 'and I tell you I don't know whether to hope or not.

But this I know, that there were days in which, poor as I am, the great heiress did not disdain to look down upon my poverty: and that any man who marries her passes over my dead body to do it.

It's lucky for you,' I added gloomily, 'that on the occasion of my engagement with you, I did not know what were your views regarding my Lady Lyndon.

My poor boy, you are a lad of courage and I love you.

Mine is the first sword in Europe, and you would have been lying in a narrower bed than that you now occupy.' 'Boy!' said Lord George: 'I am not four years younger than you are.' 'You are forty years younger than I am in experience.