I mean _Bessie_.

I mean that I love your niece and want to marry her--ay, I mean to marry her by fair means or foul--and that she will have nothing to say to me." "And what have I to do with that, Frank Muller?
The girl is her own mistress.

I cannot dispose of her in marriage, even if I wished it, as though she were a colt or an ox.

You must plead your own suit and take your own answer." "I have pleaded my suit and I have got my answer," replied the Boer with passion.

"Don't you understand, she will have nothing to say to me?
She is in love with that damned _rooibaatje_ Niel whom you have brought up here.