Now, I tell you again to pass on.

Don't force either yourself or your conversation upon her, if you're wise.

I'm here to protect her--an' I won't see her insulted for nothing." "Do you mean that as a threat, my good fellow ?" "If you think it a threat, don't deserve it, an' you won't get it.

If right was to take place, our family would have a heavy account to settle with you and yours; and it wouldn't be wise in you to add this to it." "Ha! I see--oh, I understand you, I think--more threatening--eh ?" "As I said before," replied Dalton, "that's as you may deserve it.

Your cruelty, and injustice, and oppression to our family, we might overlook; but I tell you, that if you become the means of bringin' a stain--the slightest that ever was breathed--upon the fair name of this girl, it would be a thousand times betther that you never were born." "Ah! indeed, Master Dalton! but in the mean time, what does Miss Sullivan herself say?
We are anxious to hear your own sentiments on this matter, Miss Sullivan." "I would feel obliged to you to pass on, sir," she replied; "Condy Dalton is ill, and badly able to bear sich a conversation as this." "Here," said Dalton, fiercely, laying his hand upon Mave's shoulder, "if you cross my path here--or lave but a shadow of a stain, as I said, upon her name, woe betide you!" "Your wishes are commands to me, Miss Sullivan," replied Henderson, without noticing Dalton's denunciation in the slightest degree; "and, I trust that when we meet again, you won't be guarded by such a terrible bow-wow of a dragon as has now charge of you.