Then he spoke: 'Mr.Neville, Mr.Neville, I am sorely grieved to see in you more traces of a character as sullen, angry, and wild, as the night now closing in.
They are of too serious an aspect to leave me the resource of treating the infatuation you have disclosed, as undeserving serious consideration.
I give it very serious consideration, and I speak to you accordingly.
This feud between you and young Drood must not go on.

I cannot permit it to go on any longer, knowing what I now know from you, and you living under my roof.

Whatever prejudiced and unauthorised constructions your blind and envious wrath may put upon his character, it is a frank, good-natured character.

I know I can trust to it for that.

Now, pray observe what I am about to say.