He said that that made no difference, and recommended me to add a codicil.

I asked him how much I ought to give you, and he said fifteen hundred pounds.

There will be as much as that after burying me without burden to the estate.

You must acknowledge that he has been very generous." But Clara, in her heart, did not at all thank Captain Aylmer for his generosity.

She would have had everything from him, or nothing.
It was grievous to her to think that she should owe to him a bare pittance to keep her out of the workhouse,--to him who had twice seemed to be on the point of asking her to share everything with him.
She did not love her cousin Will as she loved him; but her cousin Will's assurance to her that he would treat her with a brother's care was sweeter to her by far than Frederic Aylmer's well-balanced counsel to his aunt on her behalf.