"Will you not come and sit down?
Be calm, and listen to me quietly.

Accept my assurance that I have no intention whatever, and never shall have, of taking my proper place, of depriving you of all I resigned.

If I ever had any desire to do so, that desire would have died since I entered this house.

Are you any happier, Talbot, for the burden which I laid down, resigned to you?
I am poor, as you see,"-- he glanced at his old, worn clothes--"but----" The Marquess broke in impatiently.
"Oh, I see that.

You look--look as if you'd had bad times; you look old enough to be my father.