"It has cost me my peace--my happiness, to will it away from Lionel.

To see Verner's Pride in possession of any but a Verner will trouble me so--if, indeed, we are permitted in the next world still to mark what goes on in this--that I shall scarcely rest quiet in my grave." "You have no more--I must speak plainly, Stephen--I believe that you have no more right in equity to will away the estate from Lionel, than you would have were he the heir-at-law.

Many have said--I am sure you must be aware that they have--that you have kept him out of it; that you have enjoyed what ought to have been his, ever since his grandfather's death." "Have _you_ said it ?" angrily asked Mr.Verner.
"I have neither said it nor thought it.

When your father informed me that he had willed the estate to you, Sir Lionel being dead, I answered him that I thought he had done well and wisely; that you had far more right to it, for your life, than the boy Lionel.

But, Stephen, I should never sanction your leaving it away from him after you.