That may be a trifle to you, or to my moral feeling may be a trifle; but because of that trifle all Tretton will be my property, and his attempt to rob me of it was just the same as though he should break into a bank and steal what he found there.

He knows that just as well as I do, but to suit his own purposes he did it." There was something in the way in which the young man spoke both of his father and mother which made Harry's flesh creep.

He could not but think of his own father and his own mother, and his feelings in regard to them.

But here this man was talking of the misdoings of the one parent and the other with the most perfect _sang-froid._ "Of course I understand all that," said Harry.
"There is a manner of doing evil so easy and indifferent as absolutely to quell the general feeling respecting it.

A man shall tell you that he has committed a murder in a tone so careless as to make you feel that a murder is nothing.