"I didn't quite understand him."
"He meant you to understand that you wouldn't be like other younger brothers."
"Then what I have will be taken from you."
"There is lots for three or four of us. I do agree that if a fellow has as much as he can spend he ought not to want anything more. Morton was telling me the other day something about the settled estates. I sat in that office with him all one morning. I could not understand it all, but I observed that he said nothing about the Scotch property. You'll be a laird, and I wish you joy with all my heart. The governor will tell you all about it before long. He's going to have two eldest sons."
"What an unnatural piece of cruelty to me;—and so unnecessary!"
"Why?"
"He says that a property is no better than a burden. But I'll try and bear it."