"I did my best with the money.

How dare you address me so ?" "Did your best!" hissed Ezra, hurling the ledger down on the table with a crash.

"What did you mean by speculating without my knowledge, and telling me at the same time that I knew all that was done?
Hadn't I warned you a thousand times of the danger of it?
You are not to be trusted with money." "Remember, Ezra," his father said with dignity, re-seating himself in the chair from which he had risen, in order to free himself from his son's clutches, "if I lost the money, I also made it.

This was a flourishing concern before you were born.

If the worst comes to the worst you are only where I started.