It was that unless I could dress more in the mode he could dispense with my attendance.

That was his message to the old broken soldier who had sacrificed health, wealth, position, everything in the service of his father and himself.' 'Shameful!' we cried, all three.
'Can you wonder, then, that I cursed the whole Stuart race, false-hearted, lecherous, and cruel?
For the Hall, I could buy it back to-morrow if I chose, but why should I do so when I have no heir ?' 'Ho, you have prospered then!' said Decimus Saxon, with one of his shrewd sidelong looks.

'Perhaps you have yourself found out how to convert pots and pans into gold in the way you have spoken of.

But that cannot be, for I see iron and brass in this room which would hardly remain there could you convert it to gold.' 'Gold has its uses, and iron has its uses,' said Sir Jacob oracularly.
'The one can never supplant the other.' 'Yet these officers,' I remarked, 'did declare to us that it was but a superstition of the vulgar.' 'Then these officers did show that their knowledge was less than their prejudice.

Alexander Setonius, a Scot, was first of the moderns to achieve it.