Your mother and Captain Cuttwater----' and then he stopped himself.

What he meant was that he had sacrificed his little fortune--for at the time his elder brother had still been living--not to rescue, or in attempting to rescue, his old friend from misfortune--not, at least, because that man had been his friend; but because he was the husband of Gertrude Woodward, and of Mrs.Woodward's daughter.

Could he have laid bare his heart, he would have declared that Alaric Tudor owed him nothing; that he had never forgiven, never could forgive, the wrongs he had received from him; but that he had forgiven Alaric's wife; and that having done so in the tenderness of his heart, he had been ready to give up all that he possessed for her protection.

He would have spared Gertrude what pain he could; but he would not lie, and speak of Alaric Tudor with affection.
'But there is, Harry; there is,' said Gertrude; 'much--too much -- greatly too much.

It is that now weighs me down more than anything.