I will not see anyone from near here.

Keep them away from me," she commanded.

"I know Miss Bilson will try to send for one or the other.

But I won't see either.

Promise you'll keep them away." When, after his visit, Theresa Bilson, considerably flustered and offended, found McCabe breakfasting in the dining-room and offered profuse apologies for the inconvenience to which he must have been put by so early and unnecessary a call, the tender-hearted and garrulous, but choleric Irishman cut her uncommonly short.
"And would you be supposing then, that if the dear blessed child should be desirous of consulting me I wouldn't have rejoiced to come to her a thousand times as early and from ten thousand times as far ?" he enquired, between large mouthfuls of kidney and fried bacon.