I know that your uncle did not like it at first, but I think that he passed ten happy years here.
It gave him a great power for doing good, and he worthily availed himself of it.

We have all spent a happy time; he was universally liked and respected.

I think all of us have benefited by it.

It would not have been half as pleasant if it had been known that you, my child, were the real owner of the estate, and he was acting merely as your guardian.
Let us hope that everything will turn out as well in future.

Colonel Thorndyke told me that he had left a considerable sum in addition to the estates, and that this was to be divided between you and Mark; so you see your cousin will not go out into the world a beggar." "It is most of it lost," Millicent said with an hysterical laugh.