The court acted with a singular want of
discretion in appointing them."
"You don't mean to have us infer that Judge Bigelow and Squire Floyd
have used the funds of this estate for their own purposes, to any
great extent?"
"I would not care to say this out of doors, Doctor, but that is just
my opinion of the matter as it now stands. Dewey is guardian to the
heir, and would favor, rather than oppose, such a use of the funds."
"It might be just so much in favor of the heir," remarked Mrs.
Wallingford, "if two-thirds of the property had disappeared by the
time he reached his majority; for, from all that I have heard of
him, he is not likely to become a man fitted to use large wealth
either to his own or any body else's advantage. He was low born and
low bred, in the worst sense of the words; and I fear that no
education will change his original quality, or greatly modify his
early bias. So while the wasting of his substance is a great wrong
in the abstract, it may be a real blessing to him. Events in this
life work out strangely to our human eyes, yet there is a Providence
in them that ever educes good from evil.
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