'In a few days I shall be of age, and will join with you in raising whatever sum you want, to free you from this man.

Allow me to look over his account; and whatever the honest balance may be, let him have it.' 'My dear boy!' said Lord Clonbrony, 'you're a generous fellow.

Fine Irish heart!--glad you're my son! But there's more, much more, that you don't know,' added he, looking at Sir Terence, who cleared his throat; and Lord Clonbrony, who was on the point of opening all his affairs to his son, stopped short.
'Colambre,' said he, 'we will not say anything more of this at present; for nothing effectual can be done till you are of age, and then we shall see all about it.' Lord Colambre perfectly understood what his father meant, and what was meant by the clearing of Sir Terence's throat.

Lord Clonbrony wanted his son to join him in opening the estate to pay his debts; and Sir Terence feared that, if Lord Colambre were abruptly told the whole sum total of the debts he would never be persuaded to join in selling or mortgaging so much of his patrimony as would be necessary for their payment.

Sir Terence thought that the young man, ignorant probably of business, and unsuspicious of the state of his father's affairs, might be brought, by proper management, to any measures they desired.