That Robarts had latterly become
Sowerby's friend rather than his own in all these horrid money
dealings, had galled him; and now he had expressed himself in terms
much stronger than he had intended to use. "As to you personally,
Mark," he said, coming back to the spot on which Robarts was
standing, "I do not wish to say anything that shall annoy you."
"You have said quite enough, Lord Lufton."
"You cannot be surprised that I should be angry and indignant at the
treatment I have received."
"You might, I think, have separated in your mind those who have
wronged you, if there has been such wrong, from those who have
only endeavoured to do your will and pleasure for you. That I, as
a clergyman, have been very wrong in taking any part whatsoever
in these matters, I am well aware. That as a man I have been
outrageously foolish in lending my name to Mr. Sowerby, I also know
well enough: it is, perhaps, as well that I should be told of this
somewhat rudely; but I certainly did not expect the lesson to come
from you."
"Well, there has been mischief enough. The question is, what we had
better now both do?"
"You have said what you mean to do. You will put the affair into the
hands of your lawyer."
"Not with any object of exposing you.
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