It is only about your brother, who has been a slung stone all his life, who never had a friend, never knew a kind look from any one, that you are ready to believe evil.

I am nearly at the end of my tether here.

In a day or two you will probably hear that I am arrested, and then you will have your revenge on me for daring to be your flesh and blood; and you will have no difficulty in convincing a judge and jury that I have committed any crime you and your saintly tutor choose to concoct between you.

Pleasant to be rich and influential! I could escape if I had money.

Fifty pounds would rid you of me almost as effectively as the gallows.