We must have a tour; it will be the only fun I shall ever be able to give her." Valentine had inherited only about two hundred pounds from his father, he having been left residuary legatee, and he was much more inclined to spend this on luxuries than on necessaries.
"You've bought me land, and actually paid for it yourself, and you've bought me a flock, and made me a barn, and yet you deny me the very necessaries of life, though I can pay for them myself! I must have a tour, and D.must have a basket-carriage." "Well, my dear fellow," said Grand, "though that matter is not yet settled, it is evident things are so far advanced that we may begin to think of the wedding presents.

Now, what would you like to have from me, I wonder?
I mean how would you prefer to have it?
John and I have already considered the amount, and he quite agrees with me as to what I ought to give to my only brother's only son." "_Only brother's!_" The word struck Brandon both as showing that the old man had almost forgotten other dead brothers, and also as evidently being the preface to a larger gift than he had anticipated.
"Thank you, uncle," said Valentine, almost accomplishing a blush of pride and pleasure.

"As you are so kind as to let me choose, I should like your present in money, in my pocket, you know, because there is the tour, and it would go towards that." "In your pocket!" exclaimed John Mortimer, with a laugh of such amusement and raillery as almost put Valentine out of countenance.

"Why, do you think my father wants to give you a school-boy's tip ?" "I think a good deal depends on the lady," said Grand, who also seemed amused; "if she has no fortune, it might be wise to settle it on her; if she has, you might wish to lay it out in more land, or to invest it here; you and Giles must consider this.

I mean to give you two thousand pounds." Then, when he saw that Valentine was silent from astonishment, he went on, "And if your dear father had been here he would not have been at all surprised.