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