She will be an heiress.

There are no other relations that I know of, except the Dimsdales, and they have a fair fortune of their own.

But I must go." "By the way, malignant typhoid is very catching, is it not ?" "So they say," the merchant said quietly, and strode off through the counting-house.
Ezra Girdlestone remained behind, stretching his legs In front of the empty grate.

"The governor is a hard nail," he soliloquized, as he stared down at the shining steel bars.

"Depend upon it, though, he feels this more than he shows.