Now, what's his weak point?
Can he be bought off ?" "Certainly not," said Mr.Knight.
"Oh! that's odd in one who, you say, is a fortune-hunter.

Well, what is it?
Everyone has a weak point, and another girl won't do just now." "His weakest point is his fondness for that treacherous and abominable sex of which I have just had so painful an example; and in the church too, yes, in my church." "And a jolly good place to get to in such a rain, for of course they didn't know that you were hiding under the pews.

But I've told you that cock won't fight at present.

What's the next ?" At these accumulated insults Mr.Knight turned perfectly livid with suppressed rage.

But he did suppress it, for he had an object to gain which, to his perverted mind, was the most important in the whole world--namely, the final separation of his son and Isobel.
"His next bad point," he went on, "is his pride, which is abnormal, although from childhood I have done my best to inculcate humility of spirit into his heart.