I shall meet it, I trust, as becomes an innocent man and an upright judge. What do you charge against me? (BRASSBOUND: I charge you with the death of my mother and the theft of my inheritance.) As to your inheritance, sir, it was yours whenever you came forward to claim it. Three minutes ago I did not know of your existence. I affirm that most solemnly. I never knew--never dreamt--that my brother Miles left a son. As to your mother, her case was a hard one--perhaps the hardest that has come within even my experience. I mentioned it, as such, to Mr. Rankin, the missionary, the evening we met you. As to her death, you know--you MUST know--that she died in her native country, years after our last meeting. Perhaps you were too young to know that she could hardly have expected to live long. (BRASSBOUND: You mean that she drank.) I did not say so. I do not think she was always accountable for what she did.

Sir Howard Monologue from Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Rehearse Sir Howard's monologue