"Enough!"
Unable to conceal the violent emotion which he felt, under an ironical tone and laugh, he continued:
"Enough of this mockery of reasoning and argument, and of all this empty twaddle. If it was your intention to pass an examination before me, I give you five with plus. You have fluent speech, and quite a rich vocabulary of words. But I have no time for those things and proceed to facts and figures. The life which you are leading is impossible, and you must change. You must begin another life."
He put emphasis on the word must. Maryan looked at his father with an amazement which seemed to take away his speech.
"You have not ended your twenty-third year yet, and the history of your romances has acquired broad notoriety in the world a number of times—"
Maryan recovered from his amazement slowly.
"Affairs so completely personal—" began he with a hesitating voice.
Darvid, paying no attention to the interruption, continued:
"The sum which you lost in betting at the last races was, even for my fortune, considerable—thirty thousand."
Maryan had now almost recovered his balance.