His wife died, and two of his three children died, before the tribunals could make up their minds to show him the door and take no more of his money.

When it was all over, and the Duke in possession was left in possession, Mr.Blake discovered that the only way of being even with his country for the manner in which it had treated him, was not to let his country have the honour of educating his son.

"How can I trust my native institutions," was the form in which he put it, "after the way in which my native institutions have behaved to ME ?" Add to this, that Mr.Blake disliked all boys, his own included, and you will admit that it could only end in one way.

Master Franklin was taken from us in England, and was sent to institutions which his father COULD trust, in that superior country, Germany; Mr.Blake himself, you will observe, remaining snug in England, to improve his fellow-countrymen in the Parliament House, and to publish a statement on the subject of the Duke in possession, which has remained an unfinished statement from that day to this.
There! thank God, that's told! Neither you nor I need trouble our heads any more about Mr.Blake, senior.

Leave him to the Dukedom; and let you and I stick to the Diamond.
The Diamond takes us back to Mr.Franklin, who was the innocent means of bringing that unlucky jewel into the house.
Our nice boy didn't forget us after he went abroad.