The rent of houses and lands was the only species of property which was, as yet, perfectly intelligible.

My previous ideas led me to regard Welbeck as the proprietor of this dwelling and of numerous houses and farms.

By the same cause I was fain to suppose him enriched by inheritance, and that his life had been uniform.
I next adverted to his social condition.

This mansion appeared to have but two inhabitants besides servants.

Who was the nymph who had hovered for a moment in my sight?
Had he not called her his daughter?
The apparent difference in their ages would justify this relation; but her guise, her features, and her accents, were foreign.