Even his handwriting seemed a part of the man--cold, shapely, and deliberate.
"My DEAR BROOKS, "I have been made acquainted through Mr.Ascough with your desire to leave the new firm of Morrison and Brooks, and while I congratulate you very much upon the fact itself, I regret equally the course of reasoning which I presume led to your decision.

You will probably have heard from Mr.Ascough by this time on a matter of business.

You are, by birth, Lord Kingston of Ross, and the possessor of the Kingston income, which amounts to a little over two thousand a year.

Please remember that this comes to you not through any grace or favour of mine, but by your own unalienable right as the eldest son of the Marquis of Arranmore.
I cannot give it to you.

I cannot withhold it from you.