The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'For our mutual misery, I have refused to accede,' was the abrupt reply--'and if you had not some motive for appearing to feel otherwise--which motive I neither can penetrate nor desire to know, you would be as resolute in your objection to the bargain as I am--match I cannot call it, for it proceeds in a total oblivion of all that can endear or ennoble such a permanent connexion.'