Papa is so resolute in right." "It's a shame that fortune should be so unequally divided!" cried the young man, resentfully.

"Here's Edward with an income of thirty thousand a year, and I, his own brother, only a year or two younger, can't boast a fourth part as many hundreds!" "Oh, Val! your father left you better off than that!" "But so much of it went, Anne," was the gloomy answer.

"I never understood the claims that came in against me, for my part.

Edward had no debts to speak of; but then look at his allowance." "He was the eldest son," she gently said.
"I know that.

I am not wishing myself in Edward's place, or he out of it.
I heartily wish him health and a long life to wear his honours; it is no fault of his that he should be rolling in riches, and I a martyr to poverty.