Feelings were her reasons.

Here was a chance of making Harry's fortune--dear Harry, who was left with such a slender younger brother's; pittance--and the wretches in London would not help him; his own brother, who inherited all her papa's estate, would not help him.
To think of a child of hers being so mean at fourteen year of age! etc.
etc.

Add tears, scorn, frequent innuendo, long estrangement, bitter outbreak, passionate appeals to Heaven, and the like, and we may fancy the widow's state of mind.

Are there not beloved beings of the gentler sex who argue in the same way nowadays?
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.
This occurrence set the widow resolutely saving for her younger son, for whom, as in duty bound, she was eager to make a portion.

The fine buildings were stopped which the Colonel had commenced at Castlewood, who had freighted ships from New York with Dutch bricks, and imported, at great charges, mantelpieces, carved cornice-work, sashes and glass, carpets and costly upholstery from home.