You have done as you pleased with that fortune.

But I am ready to admit that I have borrowed L5,000--not from your ward, but from you.' Alaric was nearly beside himself; but he still felt that he should have no chance of carrying his point if he lost his temper.
'That is ungenerous of you, Scott, to say the least of it; but we'll let that pass.

To enable me to lend you the L5,000, and to enable me to join you in this speculation, L10,000 has been withdrawn from Clementina's fortune.' 'I know nothing about that,' said Scott.
'Know nothing about it!' said Alaric, looking at him with withering scorn.

But Undy was not made of withering material, and did not care a straw for his friend's scorn.
'Nothing whatever,' said he.
'Well, so be it,' said Alaric; 'but the fact is, the money has been withdrawn.' 'I don't doubt that in the least,' said Undy.

'I am not now going to argue whether the fault has been most mine or yours,' continued Alaric.
'Well, that is kind of you,' said Undy, 'considering that you are the girl's trustee, and that I have no more to do with it than that fellow in the wig there.' 'I wish at any rate you would let me explain myself,' said Alaric, who felt that his patience was fast going, and who could hardly resist the temptation of seizing his companion by the throat, and punishing him on the spot for his iniquity.
'I don't prevent you, my dear fellow--only remember this: I will not permit you to assert, without contradicting you, that I am responsible for Clem's fortune.