[No Name by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookNo Name CHAPTER III 83/102
So to-morrow I go.
If Mr.Noel Vanstone succeeds to his father's property, he is the only human being possessed of pecuniary blessings who fails to inspire me with a feeling of unmitigated envy. IX. _Chronicle for June_. _9th_ .-- I returned yesterday with my information.
Here it is, privately noted down for convenience of future reference: Mr.Noel Vanstone has left Brighton, and has removed, for the purpose of transacting business in London, to one of his late father's empty houses in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth.
This singularly mean selection of a place of residence on the part of a gentleman of fortune looks as if Mr.N.V. and his money were not easily parted. Mr.Noel Vanstone has stepped into his father's shoes under the following circumstances: Mr.Michael Vanstone appears to have died, curiously enough, as Mr.Andrew Vanstone died--intestate.
With this difference, however, in the two cases, that the younger brother left an informal will, and the elder brother left no will at all.
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