Your father and mother lived and died poor folk; you were poorly reared; and in the meanwhile, what a time it has been for the tenants on the estate of Shaws! And I might add (if it was a matter I cared much about) what a time for Mr.Ebenezer!" "And yet that is certainly the strangest part of all," said I, "that a man's nature should thus change." "True," said Mr.Rankeillor.

"And yet I imagine it was natural enough.
He could not think that he had played a handsome part.

Those who knew the story gave him the cold shoulder; those who knew it not, seeing one brother disappear, and the other succeed in the estate, raised a cry of murder; so that upon all sides he found himself evited.

Money was all he got by his bargain; well, he came to think the more of money.

He was selfish when he was young, he is selfish now that he is old; and the latter end of all these pretty manners and fine feelings you have seen for yourself." "Well, sir," said I, "and in all this, what is my position ?" "The estate is yours beyond a doubt," replied the lawyer.