"I am determined to treat it all as though it were a joke, and, as a joke, one to be spoken of lightly.

It was a strong measure, certainly, this attempt to rob me of twenty or thirty thousand pounds a year.

But it was done in favor of my brother, and therefore let it pass.

I am at a loss to conceive what my father has done with his money.

He hasn't given Mountjoy, at any rate, more than a half of his income for the last five or six years, and his own personal expenses are very small.