But for all that, Robert, you were wrong, and I have never yet in our conversations proposed any scheme which it was not well within my power to carry out.

I tell you in all sober earnest that the amount of my income is limited only by my desire, and that all the bankers and financiers combined could not furnish the sums which I can put forward without an effort." "I have had ample proof of your immense wealth," said Robert.
"And you are very naturally curious as to how that wealth was obtained.
Well, I can tell you one thing.

The money is perfectly clean.

I have robbed no one, cheated no one, sweated no one, ground no one down in the gaining of it.

I can read your father's eye, Robert.