But the bulk of the property--this estate of Boxall Hill, and the Greshamsbury mortgage, and those other mortgages--I have tied up in this way: they shall be all his at twenty-five; and up to that age it shall be in your power to give him what he wants.

If he shall die without children before he shall be twenty-five years of age, they are all to go to Mary's eldest child." Now Mary was Sir Roger's sister, the mother, therefore, of Miss Thorne, and, consequently, the wife of the respectable ironmonger who went to America, and the mother of a family there.
"Mary's eldest child!" said the doctor, feeling that the perspiration had nearly broken out on his forehead, and that he could hardly control his feelings.

"Mary's eldest child! Scatcherd, you should be more particular in your description, or you will leave your best legacy to the lawyers." "I don't know, and never heard the name of one of them." "But do you mean a boy or a girl ?" "They may be all girls for what I know, or all boys; besides, I don't care which it is.

A girl would probably do best with it.

Only you'd have to see that she married some decent fellow; you'd be her guardian." "Pooh, nonsense," said the doctor.