How can you talk such nonsense, Robert ?" Early as it was, his son could see from his excited, quarrelsome manner that the old man had been drinking.

The habit had grown upon him of late, and it was seldom now that he was entirely sober.
"Mr.Raffles Haw is the best judge," said Robert coldly.

"If he earns the money, he has a right to spend it as he likes." "And how does he earn it?
You don't know, Robert.

You don't know that you aren't aiding and abetting a felony when you help him to fritter it away.

Was ever so much money earned in an honest fashion?
I tell you there never was.