He knew his subject.

The old squire knew it well.
Mr.Grey was going down to Tretton, not to convey facts or to explain the law, but in order that he might take the side either of the father or of the son.

Mr.Scarborough had sent for the lawyer to support his view of the case; and the son had consented to meet him in order that he might the more easily get the better of his father.
Mr.Grey had of late learned one thing which had before been dark to him,--had seen one phase of this complicated farrago of dishonesty which had not before been visible to him.

Augustus suspected his father of some farther treachery.

That he should be angry at having been debarred from his birthright so long,--debarred from the knowledge of his birthright,--was, Mr.Grey thought, natural.