I perceive no object you can have in it, unless to gratify a feeling of enmity on your part, and excite one of sorrow on mine.

I say sorrow, because, on considering our relative positions, and knowing the impetuosity of your temper, I am sorry to see you here; it is scarcely generous in you to come, for the purpose of indulging in a poor, and what, after all, may be an equivocal and premature triumph over a man whose love for your daughter, you must know, will seal his lips against the expression of one offensive word towards you." "But how, let me ask, sir, do you know what brought me here?
I didn't come to scold you, nor to triumph over you; and I have already said the worst I shall say.

I know very well that you and Whitecraft will be hanged, probably from the same rope too, but, in the meantime, I would save you both if I could.

I fear indeed that to save him is out of the question, because it appears that there's a cart-load of indictments against him." "How could you doubt it, sir, when you know the incredible extent of his villany, both private and public?
and yet this is the man to whom you would have married your daughter!" "No; when I found Helen reduced to such a state the morning on which they were to be married, I told her at once that as she felt so bitterly against him I would never suffer him to become her husband.

Neither will I; if he were acquitted tomorrow I would tell him so; but you, Reilly, love my daughter for her own sake." "For her own sake, sir, as you have said, I love her.