You must know as well as I do that they haven't a leg to stand upon.

If I wanted to be nasty, I should say let them prove that they have a right to the stones.

They can't call in the assistance of the law----" "Why not ?" "Because to get even with me it would be necessary for them to make certain incriminating admissions, and to call certain evidence that would entail caustic remarks from a learned judge, and would not improbably lead to a charge of murder being preferred against them.

No, Mr.Fairfax, I know my own business, and, what is better, I know theirs.
If they like to take fifty thousand pounds, and will retire into obscurity upon it, I will pay it to them, always through you.

But I won't see either of them, and I won't pay a halfpenny more than I have offered." "You don't mean to tell me that you are in earnest ?" "I am quite in earnest," he answered.