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have encouraged him in all kinds of extravagance.

Well, Sir, this has not escaped my memory.

You have enticed him to the gaming table, and ruined him.

Well; of this, also, I have some recollection.

And your lax doctrines respecting money transactions have, I doubt not, suggested to him, that robbing an old relation of what he could easily spare, and of what, in the course of a few years, would probably be his own by right, could scarcely be considered as a crime.

Thou sayest truth: I have done all this. And wherefore have I done it, thinkest thou? For the paltry gains to be made from the ruin of a man of moderate fortune?—I, who had talents to have speculated on a much grander scale? Out upon thy little narrow conceptions!

Nay, I knew that revenge for disappointed passion had a good share in all your manoeuvres.