"What's the good of his coming back into a nest of hornets?
I have always thought that he did very well to disappear.

Where is he to live if he came back?
Should he come here ?" "Not with his gambling debts unpaid at the club." "That might have been settled.

Though, indeed, his gambling was as a tub that has no bottom to it.

There has been nothing for it but to throw him over altogether.

And yet how very much the better he has been of the two! Poor Mountjoy!" "Poor Mountjoy!" "You see, if I hadn't disinherited him I should have had to go on paying for him till the whole estate would have been squandered even during my lifetime." "You speak as though the law had given you the power of disinheriting him." "So it did." "But not the power of giving him the inheritance." "I took that upon myself.