He had continued to put money by for him, instead of spending his income on himself.
Of this Mr.Grey had known much, but had said nothing when he was speaking those severe words which Mr.Scarborough had always contrived to receive with laughter.

But he had felt their injustice, though he had himself ridiculed the idea of law.

There had been the two sons, both born from the same mother, and he had willed that they should be both rich men, living among the foremost of their fellowmen, and the circumstances of the property would have helped him.

The income from year to year went on increasing.
The water-mills of Tretton and the town of Tretton had grown and been expanded within his domain, and the management of the sales in Mr.
Grey's hands had been judicious.

The revenues were double now what they had been when Mr.Scarborough first inherited it.