"I am not going to rob my cousin of what he has always been taught to think as his inheritance.

It is abominable, I call it, and most unnatural." "But, my dear young lady, it is yours, and not his.

I do not wish to discuss whether the arrangement was altogether a wise one, but I think that so far it has turned out well for all parties.

Your estate has profited greatly by the management of your uncle, the tenants and all connected with it have benefited greatly, he himself has had active employment afforded him, of which he was fond.

Your cousin has, I believe, enjoyed the advantages of the position, and has become acquainted with the best people in this part of the country, and will now obtain the benefit of something like 15,000 pounds--a comfortable little sum, especially as he inherits, I believe, his father's property in Sussex.