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it should be yours without question, but I did not.
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My fortune is the work of others,
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who laboured to build a great dynasty.
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Do I have the right to destroy their work?
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Or impoverish that dynasty?
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I am a custodian, my dear, not an owner.
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I must strive to be worthy of the task I have been set.
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If I could take Mama's money out of the estate,
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Downton would have to be sold to pay for it.
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Is that what you want?
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To see Matthew a landless peer
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with a title but no means to pay for it?