'And who does he think will pay it?'
'As far as honesty goes, I suppose it won't much matter if it is never paid,' said she. 'I dare say he got very little of it.'
'I suppose it won't much matter either,' said the father, 'if he goes to prison and rots there. It seems to me that that's the other alternative.'
Dr Stanhope spoke the custom of his youth. But his daughter, though she lived so long abroad, was much more completely versed in the ways of the English world. 'If the man arrests him,' said she, 'he must go through the court.'
It is thus, thou great family of Sidonia—it is thus that we Gentiles treat thee, when, in our most extreme need, thou and thine have aided us with mountains of gold as big as lions—and occasionally with wine-warrants and orders for dozens of dressing-cases.
'What, and become an insolvent?' said the doctor.
'He's that already,' said Charlotte, wishing always to get over a difficulty.
'What a condition,' said the doctor, 'for the son of a clergyman of the Church of England.'
'I don't see why clergymen's sons should pay their debts more than other young men,' said Charlotte.
'He's had as much from me since he left school as is held sufficient for the eldest son of many a nobleman,' said the angry father.