Mark me, Lionel, it will bring no good to Frederick Massingbird.

Rights, violently diverted out of their course, can bring only wrong and confusion." "It would be scarcely fair were it to bring him ill," spoke Lionel, in his strict justice.

"Frederick has had nothing to do with my uncle's bequeathing the estate to him." "Nonsense, Lionel! you cannot make me believe that no cajolery has been at work from some quarter or other," peevishly answered Lady Verner.
"Tell the facts to an impartial person--a stranger.

They were always about him--his wife and those Massingbirds--and at the last moment it is discovered that he has left all to them, and disinherited you." "Mother, you are mistaken.

What my uncle has done, he has done of his own will alone, unbiassed by others; nay, unknown to others.