Come! your price ?" Baroni had recovered the momentary temptation, and was strong in the austerity of virtue, in the unassailability of social duty.
"You behave most nobly, most generously by your friend, my lord," he said politely.

"I am glad such friendship exists on earth.

But you really ask me what is not in my power.

In the first place, I am but one of the firm, and have no authority to act alone; in the second, I most certainly, were I alone, should decline totally any pecuniary compromise.

A great criminal action is not to be hushed up by any monetary arrangement.