“Yes, if you much wish it.”
“I do. He’s an enemy to our house!”
When she had gone he sat down, and wrote in a heavy hand to Farfrae
thus:—
Sir,—I make request that henceforth you and my stepdaughter be as
strangers to each other. She on her part has promised to welcome no
more addresses from you; and I trust, therefore, you will not attempt
to force them upon her.