One hundred thousand I've left in legacies, including, you know, what Lady Scatcherd will have." "Have you not left the house to Lady Scatcherd ?" "No; what the devil would she do with a house like this?
She doesn't know how to live in it now she has got it.

I have provided for her; it matters not how.

The house and the estate, and the remainder of my money, I have left to Louis Philippe." "What! two hundred thousand pounds ?" said the doctor.
"And why shouldn't I leave two hundred thousand pounds to my son, even to my eldest son if I had more than one?
Does not Mr Gresham leave all his property to his heir?
Why should not I make an eldest son as well as Lord de Courcy or the Duke of Omnium?
I suppose a railway contractor ought not to be allowed an eldest son by Act of Parliament! Won't my son have a title to keep up?
And that's more than the Greshams have among them." The doctor explained away what he said as well as he could.

He could not explain that what he had really meant was this, that Sir Roger Scatcherd's son was not a man fit to be trusted with the entire control of an enormous fortune.
Sir Roger Scatcherd had but one child; that child which had been born in the days of his early troubles, and had been dismissed from his mother's breast in order that the mother's milk might nourish the young heir of Greshamsbury.

The boy had grown up, but had become strong neither in mind nor body.