I don't suppose my father can be punished for his attempt to rob me of twenty thousand a year, and therefore he talks to me about it as though it were a good joke.

Not only that, but he expects me to receive it in the same way.

Upon the whole, he prevails.

I find myself not in the least angry with him, and rather obliged to him than otherwise for allowing me to be his eldest son." "What must Mountjoy's feelings be!" said Harry.
"Exactly; what must be Mountjoy's feelings! There is no need to consider my father's, but poor Mountjoy's! I don't suppose that he can be dead." "I should think not." "While a man is alive he can carry himself off, but when a fellow is dead it requires at least one or probably two to carry him.

Men do not wish to undertake such a work secretly unless they've been concerned in the murder; and then there will have been a noise which must have been heard, or blood which must have been seen, and the body will at last be forthcoming, or some sign of its destruction.