"After all their preaching and throwing my father's model life, as they called it, in my teeth, they had to pay HIS debts to the tune of nearly a million, whilst I can't get a hundred thousand out of them.
Après tous leurs sermons et m'avoir jeté à la figure la vie exemplaire de mon père, il leur a fallu payer ses dettes à lui, un million de livres ou peu s'en faut, alors que je ne peux tirer d'elles que cent mille livres.