I love your daughter and she loves me, and those lands and more may come back, or I, who am no fool, will win others.

Soon there will be plenty going up there at Court, where I am known.

Further, I tell you this: I believe that I shall marry Cicely, and earlier than you think, and I would have had your blessing with her." "What! Will you steal the girl away ?" asked Sir John furiously.
"By no means, sir.

But this is a strange world of ours, in which from hour to hour top becomes bottom, and bottom top, and there--I think I shall marry her.

At least I am sure that Despard the sot never will, for I'll kill him first, if I hang for it.