But," he added, with a look which was so replete with vengeance and terror, that it perfectly stunned the girl, "perhaps he won't, though.

It is likely that the fate of Grace Davoren will prevent him from it." He did not give her time to reply, but instantly disappeared, and left her in a state of mind which our readers may very well understand.
She immediately went to her uncle's library, where the following brief dialogue occurred: "Uncle, this marriage must not and shall not take place." "What!" replied the peer; "then he is none of the twelve apostles." "You are there mistaken," said she; "he is one of them.

Remember Judas." "Judas! What the deuce are you at, my dear niece ?" "Why, that he is a most treacherous villain: that's what I'm at," and her face became crimson with indignation.
"But what's in the wind?
Don't keep me in a state of suspense.

Judas! Confound it, what a comparison! Well, I perceive you are not disposed to become Mrs.Judas.You know me, however, well enough: I'm not going to press you to it.

Do you think, my dear niece, that Judas was a gentleman ?" "Precisely such a gentleman, perhaps, as Mr.Woodward is." "And you think he would betray Christ ?" "He would poison his brother, uncle, because he stands between him and his mother's property, which she has recently expressed her intention of leaving to that brother--a fact which awoke something like compassion in my breast for Woodward." "Well, then, kick him to hell, the scoundrel.