What the devil do you mean, really, Francis ?" "I mean what I say: I will pay every debt you have, and give you a charming wife with a fortune." Lord Tancred got up and walked about the room.

He was a perfectly natural creature, stolid and calm as those of his race, disciplined and deliberate in moments of danger or difficulty; yet he never lived under self-conscious control as the financier did.

He was rather moved now, and so he walked about.

He was with a friend, and it was not the moment to have to bother over disguising his feelings.
"Oh, it is nonsense, Francis; I could not do it.

I have knocked about the world as you know, and, since you are aware of everything about me, you say, you have probably heard some of my likings--and dislikings.