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Thus, at length, was Sir Robert the younger informed of the history of his inheritance. Thus, also, was it an aggravation of that wounding recital that, to all appearance, he might have earlier induced Mr. Creel to it -- at a period when he himself was less bound to the conduct of a responsibility which he now knew he had undertaken upon terms that seemed to him unnecessarily humiliating, and which he could not but think he would surely otherwise have declined. For, if any love had dictated the gift -- the new chance to a repentant prodigal -- it was harder than Roman in its expression.
So he thought, smarting under the lash of his father's prejudgment; and it was only by and by, in one of those elastic rebounds that were characteristic of the man and constitutional, that he came to consider that it _was_ a prejudgment, and that, had his father lived to see it verified, he might have modified at least the asperity of his language.