While in London I met your granduncle, and from him I learned your history, and a bad one it is.

Now, sir, I beg to inform you that your malignant and diabolical influence over the person of this young lady has ceased forever.

As to the future, she is free from that influence; but if I ever hear that you attempt to intrude yourself into her presence, or to annoy her family, I will have you secured in the jail of Waterford in forty-eight hours afterwards, for other crimes that render you liable to the law." "And pray who are you ?" asked Woodward, with a blank and crestfallen countenance, but still with a strong feeling of enmity and bitterness--a feeling which he could not repress.

"Who are you who presume to dictate to me upon my conduct and course of life ?" "Who am I ?" replied the stranger, assuming an air of incredible dignity.
"Sir, my name is VALENTINE GREATRAKES, a person on whom God has bestowed powers which, apart from inspiration, have seldom for centuries ever been vouchsafed to man." Woodward got pale again.

He had heard of his extraordinary powers of curing almost every description of malady peculiar to the human frame, and without another word slunk out of the room.