"By the way, that puts me in mind of my own; and of my own recent determination.

What are my poor L30,000 to a man with the fortune of Lord Bluewater.

Having neither a wife nor child, brother nor sister of my own, I'll do what I please with my money.

Oakes _won't_ have it; besides, he's got enough of his own, and to spare.

An estate of L7000 a year, besides heaps of prize-money funded.