"Psha," said Vickers: "you know nothing about it.
My lord could make young Eames his heir to-morrow; that is, the heir of his property.

He couldn't make him a hearl, because that must go to the heirs of his body.

As to his leaving him the place here, I don't just know how that'd be; and I'm sure Richard don't." "But suppose he hasn't got any heirs of his body ?" asked the pretty housemaid, who was rather fond of putting down Mr Vickers.
"He must have heirs of his body," said the butler.

"Everybody has 'em.

If a man don't know 'em himself, the law finds 'em out." And then Mr Vickers walked away, avoiding further dispute.
In the meantime, the earl was asleep upstairs, and the two young men from Guestwick did not find that they could amuse themselves with any satisfaction.