How, for instance, if you were to call yourself his brother ?' 'It might be done,' said I.

'But look here a moment?
You propose to me a very difficult game: I have apparently a devil of an opponent in my cousin; and, being a prisoner of war, I can scarcely be said to hold good cards.

For what stakes, then, am I playing ?' 'They are very large,' said he.

'Your great-uncle is immensely rich--immensely rich.

He was wise in time; he smelt the revolution long before; sold all that he could, and had all that was movable transported to England through my firm.