When she was a girl she inherited from Thomas Bradley, the man she was engaged to marry, and who was suddenly killed in a railway accident, more than a quarter of a million dollars, besides that beautiful estate of Elmhurst.

I don't believe Jane has even spent a quarter of her income, and the fortune must have increased enormously.

Elizabeth will be one of the wealthiest heiresses in the country!" "If she gets the money, which I doubt," returned the Professor, gloomily.
"Why should you doubt it, after this letter ?" "You had another sister and a brother, and they both had children," said he.
"They each left a girl.

I admit.

But Jane has never favored them any more than she has me.