If I persisted, he must will his property elsewhere.

The Blake estate should never descend with the seal of his approbation to a race of probable imbeciles.
"Nor was this enough.

He not only robbed me of the woman I loved, but with a clear insight into the future, I presume, insisted upon my marrying some one else of respectability and worth before he died.
'Anyone whose appearance will do you credit and whose virtue is beyond reproach,' said he.

'I don't ask her to be rich or even the offspring of one of our old families.

Let her be good and pure and of no connection to us, and I will bless her and you with my dying breath.' "The idea had seized upon him with great force, and I soon saw he was not to be shaken out of it.