This I am proposing to transfer to you.
His mother did not execute any legal document and I have nothing
more binding than a moral obligation. If you undertake the
responsibility of looking after him until such time as he is able
to earn his own living, I consider that you are entitled to use
this money in any way you think right. I hope that the boy will
reward your confidence more amply than he has rewarded mine. I need
not allude to the Pomeroy business to you, for notwithstanding your
public denials I cannot but consider that you were as deeply
implicated in that disgraceful affair as he was. I note what you
say about the admiration you had for my brother. I wish I could
honestly say that I shared that admiration. But my brother and I
were not on good terms, for which state of affairs he was entirely
responsible. I am more ready to surrender to you all my authority
over Mark because I am only too well aware how during the last year
you have consistently undermined that authority and encouraged my
nephew's rebellious spirit. I have had a great experience of boys
during thirty-five years of schoolmastering, and I can assure you
that I have never had to deal with a boy so utterly insensible to
kindness as my nephew.
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