"Lionel Verner should inherit before all, or not inherit at all.

What your ground of complaint against him is, I know not; but whatever it may be, it can be no excuse for your willing away from him Verner's Pride.

Some youthful folly of his came to your knowledge, I conclude." "Not folly.

Call it sin--call it crime," vehemently replied Mr.Verner.
"As you please; you know its proper term better than I.For one solitary instance of--what you please to name it--you should not blight his whole prospects for life.

Lionel's general conduct is so irreproachable (unless he be the craftiest hypocrite under the sun) that you may well pardon one defalcation.