What of that ?' 'I'll tell you,' returned his friend.

'It's very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.

You see that, I suppose ?' 'A bat might see that, with the sun shining,' said Dick.
'It's equally plain that the money which the old flint--rot him--first taught me to expect that I should share with her at his death, will all be hers, is it not ?' 'I should said it was,' replied Dick; 'unless the way in which I put the case to him, made an impression.

It may have done so.

It was powerful, Fred.