When the General had gone he gave me a five-pound note.
I don't think Uncle Roger was very pleased with the way Rupert behaved about the legacy, for I don't think he ever saw him from that day to this.

Perhaps, of course, it was because Rupert ran away shortly afterwards; but I shall tell about that when I come to him.

After all, why should my uncle bother about him?
He is not a Melton at all, and I am to be Head of the House--of course, when the Lord thinks right to take father to Himself! Uncle Roger has tons of money, and he never married, so if he wants to leave it in the right direction he needn't have any trouble.

He made his money in what he calls "the Eastern Trade." This, so far as I can gather, takes in the Levant and all east of it.

I know he has what they call in trade "houses" in all sorts of places--Turkey, and Greece, and all round them, Morocco, Egypt, and Southern Russia, and the Holy Land; then on to Persia, India, and all round it; the Chersonese, China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands.