Why not?
I have no relations living and I have learned to love you, I who thought that I could never care again for any man or woman or child.

I am grateful to you, who have proved to me that my heart is not dead, take what I give you as a mark of my gratitude.' Now I began to stammer my thanks, but he stopped me.

'The sum that you will inherit, nephew, amounts in all to about five thousand gold pesos, or perhaps twelve thousand of your English pounds, enough for a young man to begin life on, even with a wife.

Indeed there in England it may well be held a great fortune, and I think that your betrothed's father will make no more objection to you as a son-in-law.

Also there is this house and all that it contains; the library and the silver are valuable, and you will do well to keep them.