Indeed, to _me_ it could never come." "Thomas, you are trifling with my ignorance, and making matters worse than they really are.

Certainly, as long as you lived, you would be _my_ heir!" "Very true, as to the L20,000 in the funds, but not as to the baronetcy and Wychecombe.

So far as the two last are concerned, I am heir of blood, and of entail, of the body of Sir Wycherly Wychecombe, the first baronet, and the maker of the entail." "Had there been no entail, and had I died a child, who would have succeeded our father, supposing there had been two mothers ?" "I, as the next surviving son." "There!--I knew it must be so!" exclaimed Sir Wycherly, in triumph; "and all this time you have been joking with me!" "Not so fast, brother of mine--not so fast.

I should be of the _whole_ blood, as respected our father, and all the Wychecombes that have gone before him; but of the _half_-blood, as respected _you_.

From our father I might have taken, as his heir-at-law: but from _you_, never, having been of the _half_-blood." "I would have made a will, in that case, Thomas, and left you every farthing," said Sir Wycherly, with feeling.
"That is just what I wish you to do with Sir Reginald Wychecombe.