Unfortunately, his daughter Barbro had fallen out with the Lensmand's wife last autumn, about a trifling matter, a mere nothing—indeed, to tell the truth, a flea; and Brede himself is somewhat in disfavour there since.
" He is a man, " said Lady Russell, " whom I have no wish to see. His declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong impression in his disfavour with me" .