"Needs there an 'if' to that?
Are you not all I have--my son, indeed ?" He held out his hands, and Justin took them affectionately and pressed them in his own.
"You'll put these weak notions from your mind, Justin, and prove worthy the noble lady who was your mother ?" Mr.Caryll moved aside again, hanging his head, his face pale and troubled.

Where Everard's arguments must fail, his own affection for Everard was like to conquer him.

It was very weak in him, he told himself; but then his love for Everard was strong, and he would fain spare Everard the pain he knew he must be occasioning him.

Still he did battle, his repugnance up in arms.
"I would you could see the matter as I see it," he sighed.

"This man grown old, and reaping in his old age the fruits of the egotism he has sown.