The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me.
For Heaven's sake, let us examine sacredly whether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right.

No one can help towards it, mother, but you.' Still so recoiling in her chair that her overpoised weight moved it, from time to time, a little on its wheels, and gave her the appearance of a phantom of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she interposed her left arm, bent at the elbow with the back of her hand towards her face, between herself and him, and looked at him in a fixed silence.
'In grasping at money and in driving hard bargains--I have begun, and I must speak of such things now, mother--some one may have been grievously deceived, injured, ruined.

You were the moving power of all this machinery before my birth; your stronger spirit has been infused into all my father's dealings for more than two score years.

You can set these doubts at rest, I think, if you will really help me to discover the truth.

Will you, mother ?' He stopped in the hope that she would speak.