He was a good friend of your father's, liked him, and he wants to see his wishes carried out.

Your father was one of the best of men.

It's a great loss to the community ...

his death." But as Zoe was my sister why should she not have some of the land that my father left?
Should her dark skin deprive her of that?
My father had evidently thought so.

But now I could settle the estate by enforcing the will, or I could divide the estate with her equally.