You have tried to take the tone of a man who has some kind of hold upon another.

You had better understand at once that such a tone won't answer with me.

If you had any hold upon me, or any power over me, you'd be quick enough to use it; and you ought to be aware that I know that, and can see to the bottom of such a shallow little game as yours." Mr.Sheldon the younger looked at his brother with an expression of surprise that was not entirely unmingled with admiration.
"Well, you _are_ a cool hand, Phil!" he said.
Here the conversation ended.

The two brothers were very good friends after this, and George presented himself at the gothic villa whenever he received an invitation to dine there.

The dinners were good, and the men who ate them were men of solidity and standing in the commercial world; and George was very glad to eat good dinners, and to meet eligible men; but he never again asked his brother for the loan of odd hundreds.
He grubbed on, as best he might, in the dingy Gray's-Inn chambers.