When she was dead, I apprehend he first told his daughter what he had done, and then the son became a part of the family, residing in the house you are acquainted with.

As the son grew a young man, he turned out riotous, extravagant, undutiful,--altogether bad.

At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham .-- Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose." I had been doing this, in an excess of attention to his recital.

I thanked him, and apologized.

He said, "Not at all," and resumed.
"Miss Havisham was now an heiress, and you may suppose was looked after as a great match.