83/143 When the others present had taken their departure, my co-executor and I, together with Mr.Rupert Sent Leger, who had remained at my request, went into my private room. He is evidently a man of considerable nerve, for his face was quite impassive as he read the document, which conveyed to him (subject to the conditions laid down) a fortune which has no equal in amount in Europe, even, so far as I know, amongst the crowned heads. When he had read it over a second time he stood up and said: "I wish I had known my uncle better. He must have had the heart of a king. I never heard of such generosity as he has shown me. |