There is a mystery in my destruction, and in time it shall be explained.
"I am glad you have found so much hidden treasure; and Mrs.Unwin desires me to tell you that you did her no more than justice in believing that she would rejoice in it.

It is not easy to surmise the reason why the reverend doctor, your predecessor, concealed it.

Being a subject of a free government, and I suppose fall of the divinity most in fashion, he could not fear lest his riches should expose him to persecution.

Nor can I suppose that he held it any disgrace for a dignitary of the church to be wealthy, at a time when churchmen in general spare no pains to become so.

But the wisdom of some men has a droll sort of knavishness in it, much like that of a magpie, who hides what he finds with a deal of contrivance, merely for the pleasure of doing it.
"Mrs.Unwin is tolerably well.