What does all that mean ?" I thought it a good occasion for an epigram, so I said one word: "Bilk!" "H'm!" said father; "that is so far as you and I are concerned.

You with a beggarly ten thousand, and I with twenty.

But what is, or will be, the effect of those secret trusts ?" "Oh, that," I said, "will, I dare say, be all right.

Uncle Roger evidently did not intend the older generation to benefit too much by his death.

But he only gave Rupert St.Leger one thousand pounds, whilst he gave me ten.