"Two thousand three hundred pounds, or ten times that amount, would not make you appreciably poorer.

But if, as is probable, you take a different view, then I propose to pay for it myself.

As you know a certain sum of money came to me under my mother's will in which you have only a life interest.

I shall raise the amount upon that security--or otherwise." If Sir Alexander had been angry before, now he became like a mad bull in a china shop.

He pranced round the room; he used language that should not pass the lips of any respectable merchant of bullion; in short, he did everything that a person in his position ought not to do.