It is distasteful--it is positively hateful to me.' 'Well, well, let it stand thus for the present.

But will you refuse me one little request--merely to see her?
I'll contrive it so that she may not see you.

Don't refuse me, it is the one thing I ask, and I shall think it hard if you deny me.' 'O Will!' said the captain wearily.

'Why will you plead so?
No--even though your mind is particularly set upon it, I cannot see her, or bestow a thought upon her, much as I should like to gratify you.' VI.
When they had parted Dare walked along towards Markton with resolve on his mouth and an unscrupulous light in his prominent black eye.

Could any person who had heard the previous conversation have seen him now, he would have found little difficulty in divining that, notwithstanding De Stancy's obduracy, the reinstation of Captain De Stancy in the castle, and the possible legitimation and enrichment of himself, was still the dream of his brain.