The other small legacies will take about a thousand, and you will therefore have some fifteen thousand pounds, which is all invested in first-rate securities." "I feel my good fortune, sir," Lisle said quietly, "but I would that it had not come to me for many years, and not in such a manner." The meeting soon after broke up, and Lisle went up to town and joined Hallett at the hotel they both used.
"Well, I congratulate you heartily," Hallett said, when he heard the contents of the will.

"It is a good windfall, but not a bit more than you deserve." "I would rather not have had it," Lisle said, sorrowfully.

"I owe much to the colonel, who has for the past three years given me an allowance of two hundred pounds a year; and I would far rather have gone on with that, than come into a fortune in this manner." "I can understand that," Hallett said; "the colonel was a first-rate old fellow, and his death will be an immense loss to you.

Still, but for you it would have come three years ago and, after all, it is better to be killed hunting than to be shot to pieces by savages.
"Well, it will bring you in six or seven hundred pounds a year, a sum not to be despised.

It will enable you to leave the army, if you like; though I should advise you to stick to it.