To be thus supplanted, was not to be thought of.

He would sacrifice everything but his inheritance to secure his betrothed.
"And so you are the cause of her late coldness towards me.

Leave! I will talk no more about it; the business is settled between us; there it will remain," said Henry.
"Have you no wish to know the real state of Jane's affections towards you ?" asked George.
"No! Go, I say! go!" and Henry opened the door for him to pass out.
He retired to Aunt Abby's.

Henry soon followed, and presented his cause to Mrs.Bellmont.
Provoked, surprised, indignant, she summoned Jane to her presence, and after a lengthy tirade upon Nab, and her satanic influence, told her she could not break the bonds which held her to Henry; she should not.
George Means was rightly named; he was, truly, mean enough; she knew his family of old; his father had four wives, and five times as many children.
"Go to your room, Miss Jane," she continued.

"Don't let me know of your being in Nab's for one while." The storm was now visible to all beholders.