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The three men hung their heads. "What mother says he must agree to," muttered Asher. "But I gave you all I had," said Adam. "If I am old I am your father, and if I am poor you know best who made me so." "We are poor, too, sir; we have nothing, and we do not forget who is to blame for it," Thurstan growled. "You gave everything away from us," grumbled Ross; "and, because your bargain is a rue bargain, you want us now to stand aback of you." And Stean, and Jacob, and John coming in at that moment, Jacob said, very slyly, with something like a sneer— "Ah, yes, and who took the side of a stranger against his own children? What of your good Michael Sunlocks now, sir? Is he longing for you? Or have you never had the scribe of a line from him since he turned his back on you, four years ago?"