Were he, the other man, to come to her, she would only bid him go away; but why she should so bid him she had hardly known.

But now this dark frowning captain, with his big mustache and his military look, and his general aspect of invincible power, threatened the other man.
"He came to Tretton as my friend," he said, "and by Heaven if he stands in my way, if he dare to cross between you and me, he shall answer it with his life!" The name had not been mentioned; but this had been very terrible to Florence, and she could only weep.
He went away, refusing to stay to dinner, but said that on the following afternoon he would again return.

In the street of the town he met one of his creditors, who had discovered his journey to Cheltenham, and had followed him.
"Oh, Captain Mountjoy, what is all dis that they are talking about in London ?" "What are they talking about ?" "De inheritance!" said the man, who was a veritable Jew, looking up anxiously in his face.
The man had his acceptance for a very large sum of money, with an assurance that it should be paid on his father's death, for which he had given him about two thousand pounds in cash.
"You must ask my father." "But is it true ?" "You must ask my father.

Upon my word, I can tell you nothing else.

He has concocted a tale of which I for one do not believe a word.