But remember, Thorne, I shall alter my will to-morrow." "Do so by all means; you may well alter it for the better.

If I may advise you, you will have down your own business attorney from London.

If you will let me send he will be here before to-morrow night." "Thank you for nothing, Thorne: I can manage that matter myself.

Now leave me; but remember, you have ruined that girl's fortune." The doctor did leave him, and went not altogether happy to his room.
He could not but confess to himself that he had, despite himself as it were, fed himself with hope that Mary's future might be made more secure, aye, and brighter too, by some small unheeded fraction broken off from the huge mass of her uncle's wealth.

Such hope, if it had amounted to hope, was now all gone.