Had you been a few years older, I would gladly have given my daughter to you did your inclination and hers jump that way.

As it is, I can only regard you as a younger brother of hers, and view you as a sort of son by adoption.

Young men in cavalry regiments require horses and have many expenses, and you will really pain me much if you refuse to allow me to act as your banker.

I have, believing that you would not take it wrongly, paid in to your account with the paymaster of your regiment the sum of two hundred pounds, and have told him that the same sum would be paid to your account annually so long as the regiment might be in Flanders, and that he may further cash any order drawn by you upon my house.
"There now, my daughter is waiting, and the hour for sailing is at hand.

Do not let us say any more about it." So saying he hurried Rupert out into the hall where Maria Von Duyk was waiting, before he could have raised any objection, had he wished to do so.