He certainly would not leave his property to support the title which Sir Felix unfortunately possessed.

But Sir Felix was the natural heir, and this man felt himself constrained, almost as by some divine law, to see that his land went by natural descent.

Though he was in no degree fettered as to its disposition, he did not presume himself to have more than a life interest in the estate.

It was his duty to see that it went from Carbury to Carbury as long as there was a Carbury to hold it, and especially his duty to see that it should go from his hands, at his death, unimpaired in extent or value.

There was no reason why he should himself die for the next twenty or thirty years,--but were he to die Sir Felix would undoubtedly dissipate the acres, and then there would be an end of Carbury.