‘Nor I,’ said he.
‘Nor the dear children. Oh, if your dear brother were only here! We are longing to hear all about it,’ she said, as she settled herself in the arm-chair, a relic of his mother.
He repeated what he had told Mary about the family, the Park, and the London house.
‘I suppose there is a fine establishment of servants and carriages?’
‘The servants are to be paid off. As to the carriages and the rest of the personal property, they go to Miss Morton; but the executors are arranging about my paying for such furniture as I shall want.’
‘And jewels?’
‘There are some heirlooms, but I have not seen them. How are the children?’
‘Very well; very much delighted. Dear Herbert is the noblest boy. He was ready to begin on his navigation studies this next term, but of course there is no occasion for that now.’
‘It is a pity, with his taste for the sea, that he is too old to be a naval cadet.’
‘The army is a gentleman’s profession, if he must have one.’