But upon the whole, Mr.
Grey," he added, after a pause, "I think we had better pay them.

They have endeavored to be insolent to me, and I have therefore ignored their claim.

I have told them to do their worst.

If my son here will agree with you in raising the money, and if Mountjoy,--as he, too, is necessary,--will do so, I too will do what is required of me.

If eighty thousand pounds will settle it all, there ought not to be any difficulty.