"I don't like the idea of his being starved.

He can't live without something to live upon." "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," said the son.

"For lambs such as he there always seems to be pasture provided of one sort or another." "You would not like to have to trust to such pastures," said the father.
"Nor should I like to be hanged; but I should have to be hanged if I had committed murder.

Think of the chances which he has had, and the way in which he has misused them.

Although illegitimate, he was to have had the whole property,--of which not a shilling belongs to him; and he has not lost it because it was not his own, but has simply gambled it away among the Jews.