Meantime, the ward was to receive for her own use and benefit, year by year, the whole income.
"It is unfortunate," said Joe, "that we can't come down upon her for arrears.

Still, there's an income, a steady income, of three thousand six hundred a year when the son's heirs present themselves.

I should like to call myself a solicitor, but that kite won't fly, I'm afraid.
Lotty must be the sole heiress.

Dressed quiet, without any powder, and her fringe brushed flat, she'd pass for a lady anywhere.

Perhaps it's lucky, after all, that I married her, though if I had had the good sense to make up to Iris, who's a deuced sight prettier, she'd have kept me going almost as well with her pupils, and set me right with the old man and handed me over this magnificent haul for a finish.