He had a sufficient income, and he wanted no more.

His wife's dowry was settled on herself.

When he died, he left her a life-interest in his property amounting to six hundred a year.

This, added to the annual proceeds of her own little fortune, made an income of one thousand pounds.

The remainder of Mr.Vere's property was left to his only surviving child, Ovid.
With a thousand a year for herself, and with two thousand a year for her son, on his coming of age, the widowed Maria might possibly have been satisfied--but for the extraordinary presumption of her younger sister.
Susan, ranking second in age, ranked second also in beauty; and yet, in the race for a husband, Susan won the prize! Soon after her sister's marriage, she made a conquest of a Scotch nobleman, possessed of a palace in London, and a palace in Scotland, and a rent-roll of forty thousand pounds.