I knew your secret and kept it as well as you did yourself.

I tried to stop you; but you went your own way." Charles was silent.

It was true, and he knew it.
"And so you thought, I suppose, that if your father had made a just will you could have retrieved yourself ?" "I know I could," said Charles, firmly; "but he left the -- --shire property to Ralph, and every shilling of his capital; and Ralph had my mother's fortune already.

I have Stoke Moreton and the place in Surrey, which he could not take from me, but everything is entailed, down to the trees in the park.

I have nominally a large income; but I am in the hands of the Jews.