I blame him--more bitterly than you can think; perhaps more bitterly even than do you, for I have had a look into his mind and see the exact place held there by my mother's memory.

I can judge and condemn him; but I can't execute him; I can't betray him.

I don't think I could do it even if he were not my father." He paused, and leaning his hands upon the table at which Sir Richard sat, he faced him, and spoke in a voice of earnest pleading.

"Sir Richard, this was not the task to give me; or, if you had planned to give it me, you should have reared me differently; you should not have sought to make of me a gentleman.

You have brought me up to principles of honor, and you ask me now to outrage them, to cast them off, and to become a very Judas.