'My eye! what a fool you've made of yourself!' 'And that was why you wouldn't compromise,' said Morris.
'As for the absurd position in which you and Uncle Joseph have been making yourselves an exhibition,' resumed Michael, 'it is more than time it came to an end.

I have prepared a proper discharge in full, which you shall sign as a preliminary.' 'What ?' cried Morris, 'and lose my seven thousand eight hundred pounds, and the leather business, and the contingent interest, and get nothing?
Thank you.' 'It's like you to feel gratitude, Morris,' began Michael.
'O, I know it's no good appealing to you, you sneering devil!' cried Morris.

'But there's a stranger present, I can't think why, and I appeal to him.

I was robbed of that money when I was an orphan, a mere child, at a commercial academy.

Since then, I've never had a wish but to get back my own.