In seven or eight years you may clear your father's name, and live better all the time than many of your bankrupt gentlemen.

You have told the creditors you will pay them.
Do you think they're gaping fools, to be satisfied by a History of Portugal?
If you refuse to take the business at once, they will sell me up, and quite right too.

Understand your choice.

There's Mr.Goren has promised to have you in London a couple of months, and teach you what he can.

He is a kind friend.