"I don't think that I could ever bring myself to do an act like that by which you deprived me of my birthright; but I declare that, if I had the misfortune to do so, I should afterwards have acted as you have.

Your rank was too conspicuous to permit a voluntary acknowledgment.

It was a thousand times better to suffer an injustice to continue in secret, than to expose the name to the comments of the malicious." This answer surprised the count, and very agreeably too.

But he wouldn't let his satisfaction be seen, and it was in a still harsher voice that he resumed.
"I have no claim, sir, upon your affection; I do not ask for it, but I insist at all times upon the utmost deference.

It is traditional in our house, that a son shall never interrupt his father when he is speaking; that, you have just been guilty of.