The simpler duty, the point of every-day honour, I could not suppose that you would fail in.

From the day when you came of age, when Mr.Mutimer spoke to you, saying that in every respect you would be as his son, and you, for your part, accepted what he offered, you owed it to him to respect the lightest of his reasonable wishes.

The wish which was supreme in him you have utterly disregarded.

Is it that you failed to understand him?
I have thought of late of a way you had now and then when you spoke to me about him; it has occurred to me that perhaps you did him less than justice.

Regard his position and mine, and tell me whether you think he could have become so much to us if he had not been a gentleman in the highest sense of the word.