"You must take the estate, and we can divide the rest between us.

What is the rest ?" "To begin with," Mark said cheerfully, "there are 25,000 pounds, the accumulations of the rents of the estate after the death of my grandfather up to the time when the Colonel returned from India; and there are, besides, a few thousands, though I don't exactly know how many, that my father paid over to the solicitors as the surplus of the rents of the estates after paying all expenses of keeping up this house.
He very properly considered that although he had accepted the situation at your father's earnest wish, he ought not to make money by doing so.
If we put it down at 30,000 pounds altogether, you see there is 15,000 pounds for each of us.

A very nice sum for a young man to start life with, especially as I shall have my father's estate near Hastings, which brings in 500 pounds a year; and as the rents of this have been accumulating for the last ten years, my share will be raised from 15,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds.

Besides this, there is the main bulk of the Colonel's fortune made in India.

That seems to be worth about 100,000 pounds but I must own that the chance of getting it seems very small." "How is that, Mark ?" Mark told her the whole story.
"I mean to make it my business to follow the matter up," he said.