"I wished to speak with your daughter, because I am to be married soon, and my wife will, at intervals, come here to live.

I wished that she should not be shunned by you and yours as I have been.

She would not understand, as I do not.
Yours is a constant call to war, while all your religion is an appeal for peace.

I wished to ask your daughter to influence you to make it possible for me and mine to live in friendship among you.

My wife will have some claims upon you.