Strange, isn't it, for a man with all that money to have lived such a life as your father's ?" "Strange indeed," Percival Nowell cried with a sneer.

"And my daughter will step into two or three thousand a year," he went on: "very pleasant for her, and for her husband into the bargain.

Of course I'm not going to say that I wouldn't rather have had the income myself.

You'd scarcely swallow that, as a man of the world, you see, Medler.

But the girl is my only child, and though circumstances have divided us for the greater part of our lives, blood is thicker than water; and in short, since there was no getting the governor to do the right thing, and leave this money to me, it's the next best thing that he should leave it to Marian." "To say nothing of the possibility of her dying without children, and your coming into the property after all," said Mr.Medler, wondering a little at Mr.Nowell's philosophical manner of looking at the question.
"Sir," exclaimed Percival indignantly, "do you imagine me capable of speculating upon the untimely death of my only child ?" The lawyer shrugged his shoulders doubtfully.