I am sincerely glad of it.

From now on I shall never again be guilty of mistaking you for a friend or a gentleman.

No, I have no wish to listen to another word; you have spoken frankly enough, and I understand the situation.

Perhaps it is only anger, but it gives me the excuse I have been seeking after a long while in vain.

Whatever claim you may have had upon my regard in the past is over with, forever over with, Captain Grant." "But--but, surely--" "I mean precisely that.