It would be ruined by incumbrances in the shape of post-obits.

All this had been deeply considered, and at last Mr.Bolton had consented to act between the father and the son.
When John Caldigate was driven up through the iron gates to Mr.Bolton's door, his mind was not quite at ease within him.

He had seen Mr.Bolton on two or three occasions during his University career, and had called at the house; but he had never entered it, and had never seen the ladies; and now it was necessary that he should discuss his own follies, and own all his faults.

Of course, that which he was going to do would, in the eyes of the British world, be considered very unwise.

The British world regards the position of heirship to acres as the most desirable which a young man could hold.