Report says that he has deeply dipped into his estates over the dice box; and your lady mother's estates, and the sum that many years of quiet living has enabled her to save, are doubtless items which he has not overlooked." Rupert remained for some time silent.
"I will be perfectly respectful to my mother," he said, "but I will not disguise my feelings.

If I did so at first, it would in the end be useless, for Sir William I could never treat with respect.
Sooner or later a quarrel would come, and I may therefore as well have it understood first as last.

The estates I care for only because they were part of the Chace, and I know that they will never be mine if this match is made.

You feel that yourself, do you not, sir ?" "Yes," the colonel said, reluctantly, "I have felt that all along." "Very well, sir," Rupert said; "in that case I have nothing to gain by affecting a satisfaction at this match.

I shall respectfully but firmly warn my mother against it, and tell her that if she persists in it I will never put my foot under the roof of Sir William Brownlow." The next morning the servant brought word to Rupert, that Mistress Holliday wished to speak to him in her room.