But I'll tell you what, governor, the best way is to make all that safe.
We'll make him another hoffer--for a regular substantial family harrangement--" "A family arrangement, eh ?" "Yes; that's the way they always manage things when great family hinterests is at stake.

Let him give us a cool seven thousand a year between us while he's alive; let him put you down for twenty thousand when he's dead--that'd come out of the young gentleman's share of the property, of course--and then let him give me his daughter Hemmeline, with another twenty thousand tacked on to her skirt-tail.

I should be mum then for hever for the honour of the family." The father for a moment or two was struck dumb by the magnitude of his son's proposition.

"That's what I call playing the game firm," continued the son.

"Do you lay down your terms before him, substantial, and then stick to 'em.