He was so unlike other men, and his life seemed to be different from the lives of the men whom she had known--stronger, more intense, and of greater variety of incident.
"Of course," he went on, "his death was really of enormous advantage to me.

They say that I shall have two or three thousand a year, instead of five hundred, paid quarterly at Cox's.

He could not prevent it coming to me.

It was my mother's money.

He would have done so if he could, for we never disguised our antipathy for each other.