He can live, if he wants to, and apparently he does want to, though whether he will continue to want to is another question.

But he shall not have Rachel.

She must marry Dick." A distant rumbling was heard of the carriage driving under the stable archway on its way to the front-door.
Lord Newhaven picked up a novel with a mark in it, and left the room.

In the passage he stopped a moment at the foot of the narrow black oak staircase to the nurseries, which had once been his own nurseries.

All was very silent.