Below them lay the clean sands, stretching away on either side in unbroken smoothness--the sands of Corton.
"And why will he not take your advice ?" asked Lucille.
"Because he is a pig-headed fool--as his father was before him.

It is all his father's fault, for placing him in such an impossible position." "I do not understand," said Lucille.
John Turner crossed his legs with a grunt of obesity.
"It is nevertheless simple, Mademoiselle," he said; "father and son quarrelled because old Howard, who was as obstinate as his son, made up his mind that Dick should marry Isabella Gayerson.

Plenty of money, adjoining estates, the old story of misery with many servants.

Dick, being his father's son, at once determined that he would do no such thing, and there was a row royal.

Dick went off to Paris, in debt and heedless of the old man's threat to cut him off with a shilling.