I don't care to talk much of myself in particular, though no wrong can have been done to a man more infinite than that which my father contrived for me." "I cannot understand your father," said Harry.

In truth, there was something in Scarborough's manner in speaking of his father which almost produced belief in Harry's mind.

He began to doubt whether Augustus was in the conspiracy.
"No, I should say not.

It is hard to understand that an English gentleman should have the courage to conceive such a plot, and the wit to carry it out.

If Mountjoy had run only decently straight, or not more than indecently crooked, I should have been a younger brother, practising law in the Temple to the end of my days.