This, with our match at fisticuffs by moonlight, had greatly inclined Carew to favor me; yet, when the disclosure of my identity was made, I thought for a moment all my pains were lost.

He resented the intrusion exceedingly; but then he had himself invited me to be his guest; and he holds his word as good as his bond.

Indeed, by what the chaplain tells me, it will soon be held something better, for even his vast estate is crumbling away, acre by acre, beneath the load of lavish expenditure it has to bear.

There must be much, however, at the worst, to be picked up among the _debris_ of such a fortune." "I am aware that it is in the last degree improbable that Carew will be persuaded to make a will in _any body's_ favor at present.

He imagines, I think, that the whole world is made for his sole enjoyment--it almost might be so, for all he sees to the contrary--and never dreams that he will die.