Guardian of her fortune, rather than of her.
The old aunt will have the charge of her body, the--er--pleasure of her society--_he_, of the estate only.
Fancy Wynter, of all men, dying rich--actually _rich_.

The professor pulls his beard, and involuntarily glances round the somewhat meagre apartment, that not all his learning, not all his success in the scientific world--and it has been not unnoteworthy, so far--has enabled him to improve upon.

It has helped him to live, no doubt, and distinctly outside the line of _want_, a thing to be grateful for, as his family having in a measure abandoned him, he, on his part, had abandoned his family in a _measure_ also (and with reservations), and it would have been impossible to him, of all men, to confess himself beaten, and return to them for assistance of any kind.

He could never have enacted the part of the prodigal son.

He knew this in earlier days, when husks were for the most part all he had to sustain him.