They are much of the same age, as well I have cause to remember;--and so has her ladyship there." Now the fact was, that Sir Roger Scatcherd felt in his heart no special love for young Gresham; but with her ladyship it might almost be a question whether she did not love the youth whom she had nursed almost as well as that other one who was her own proper offspring.
"And will you not put any check on thoughtless expenditure?
If you live ten or twenty years, as we hope you may, it will become unnecessary; but in making a will, a man should always remember he may go off suddenly." "Especially if he goes to bed with a brandy bottle under his head; eh, doctor?
But, mind, that's a medical secret, you know; not a word of that out of the bedroom." Dr Thorne could but sigh.

What could he say on such a subject to such a man as this?
"Yes, I have put a check on his expenditure.

I will not let his daily bread depend on any man; I have therefore left him five hundred a year at his own disposal, from the day of my death.

Let him make what ducks and drakes of that he can." "Five hundred a year certainly is not much," said the doctor.
"No; nor do I want to keep him to that.

Let him have whatever he wants if he sets about spending it properly.