Your papa, you know, is very proud of his family--_he_ never had the slightest suspicion of your uncle.' 'Oh no!' I cried vehemently.
'That's right, Maud Ruthyn,' said Cousin Monica, with a sad little smile and a nod.

'And your papa was, you may suppose, very angry.' 'Of course he was,' I exclaimed.
'You have no idea, my dear, _how_ angry.

He directed his attorney to prosecute, by wholesale, all who had said a word affecting your uncle's character.

But the lawyers were against it, and then your uncle tried to fight his way through it, but the men would not meet him.

He was quite slurred.