You ask my motives.

Can a man explain heredity?
Here"-- and he threw a packet of papers on the writing-desk--"are the proofs of my identity.

It is not long ago, only one hundred and fifty years, since David Hume was robbed of his birthright, and what is such a period to the old families of England and Japan?
There are men living in Japan to-day who saw his son in the flesh.
I am his lawful descendant.

I came to England and resolved to be an Englishman.

But I needed money.