In regard to my answer , I must humbly request request your Ladyship to write to this effect : " That I would not , upon any account , intentionally offend Madame Duval ; but that I have weighty , nay unanswerable reasons for detaining detain her grand-daughter at present in England ; the principal of which is , that it was the earnest desire of one to whose will she owes implicit duty .

It was the manner in which all this , and much more , was said say -- it was the apparent heart that went with his request request -- which allowed me no room for hesitation ; and I accordingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons .

His wife was Henrietta Lebrune , the Boston " Society Contralto , " and the single child of the union was , at the request request of his grandfather , christened christen Anthony Comstock Patch .

I request request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative .