"Now, I rather like the way you talked to me, and, if it wouldn't be disloyalty to the Colonel, I should be pleased if you would undertake to put me in due possession of my property." He said nothing further, and the lawyer sat down to write Colonel Barrington.
"Mr.Courthorne proves obdurate," he said.

"He is, however, by no means the type of man I expected to find, and I venture to surmise that you will eventually discover him to be a less undesirable addition to Silverdale than you are at present inclined to fancy.".