To see my afflicted wife I would forfeit my heart's yearnings for my son; your money, sir, I toss to the winds; and I am under the necessity of informing you that I despise and loathe you.

I shrink from the thought of exposing my son to your besotted selfish example.

The boy is mine; I have him, and he shall traverse the wilderness with me.

By heaven! his destiny is brilliant.

He shall be hailed for what he is, the rightful claimant of a place among the proudest in the land; and mark me, Mr.Beltham, obstinate sensual old man that you are! I take the boy, and I consecrate my life to the duty of establishing him in his proper rank and station, and there, if you live and I live, you shall behold him and bow your grovelling pig's head to the earth, and bemoan the day, by heaven! when you,--a common country squire, a man of no origin, a creature with whose blood we have mixed ours--and he is stone-blind to the honour conferred on him--when you in your besotted stupidity threatened to disinherit Harry Richmond.' The door slammed violently on such further speech as he had in him to utter.