You need not doubt my word, for the proofs will be forthcoming.

East Lynne was in the market for sale; I heard of it, and became the purchaser--just as I might have bought an estate from any of you.

And now, as this is my house, and you have no claim upon me, I shall be obliged to you to withdraw." "Perhaps you'll claim the horses and carriages next, sir," cried the man with the hooked nose.
Mr.Carlyle raised his head haughtily.

"What is mine is mine, legally purchased and paid for--a fair, just price.

The carriages and horses I have nothing to do with; Lord Mount Severn brought them down with him." "And I have got a safe watcher over them in the out premises, to see as they don't run away," nodded the man, complacently; "and if I don't mistake, there's a safe watcher over something else upstairs." "What a cursed scoundrel Mount Severn was." "Whatever he may have been, it does not give you the right to outrage the feelings of his daughter," warmly interrupted Mr.Carlyle; "and I should have thought that men, calling themselves Englishmen, would have disdained the shame.