He answered me with an epigram which I will not repeat, besides which it is untranslatable.

I will only tell you that he gave me a sum equivalent to a few hundred pounds, and bade me seek my fortune." Arnold was intensely interested.
"Tell me how you started!" he begged.
"A few hundred pounds were insufficient," Sabatini answered coolly, "and my uncle was a coward.

I waited my opportunity, and although three times I was denied an audience, on the fourth I found him alone.

He would have driven me out but I used the means which I have never known to fail.

I left him with a small but sufficient fortune." Arnold looked at him with glowing eyes.
"You forced him to give it you!" he exclaimed.
"Without a doubt," Sabatini answered, coolly.