Wilding prevailed upon him, and withdrew him from the field.

But as they rode back to Zoyland Chase the old rake was bitter in his inveighings against Wilding's folly and weakness.
"I pray Heaven," he kept repeating, "that it may not come to cost you dear." "Have done," said Mr.Wilding, a trifle out of patience.

"Could I wed the sister having slain the brother ?" And Trenchard, understanding at last, accounted himself a numskull that he had not understood before.

But he none the less deemed it a pity Richard had been spared..