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you are such a complete Seacombe in appearance, feature, language, almost manner, I wonder they should disown you."
"They have disowned me; so talk no more about it."
"Do you regret it, William?"
"No."
"Why not, lad?"
"Because they are not people with whom I could ever have had any sympathy."
"I say you are one of them."
"That merely proves that you know nothing at all about it; I am my mother's son, but not my uncle's nephew."
"Still—one of your uncles is a lord, though rather an obscure and not a very wealthy one, and the other a right honourable: you should consider worldly interest."
"Nonsense, Mr. Hunsden. You know or may know that even had I desired to be submissive to my uncles, I could not have stooped with a good
