I have no need of any part thereof.

When the good Quintus, my second father, sailed on the voyage which was his last, he left me his heir, princely rich.

If, therefore, thou cost think of me again, be it with remembrance of this question, which, as I do swear by the prophets and Jehovah, thy God and mine, was the chief purpose of my coming here: What cost thou know--what canst thou tell me--of my mother and Tirzah, my sister--she who should be in beauty and grace even as this one, thy sweetness of life, if not thy very life?
Oh! what canst thou tell me of them ?" The tears ran down Esther's cheeks; but the man was wilful: in a clear voice, he replied, "I have said I knew the Prince Ben-Hur.

I remember hearing of the misfortune which overtook his family.

I remember the bitterness with which I heard it.