The Abbot's Ghost or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story

"You know it was supposed that old Sir Jasper, being a bachelor, would leave his fortune to his two nephews. But he was an oddity, and as the title must go to young Jasper by right, the old man said Maurice should have the money. He was poor, young Jasper rich, and it seemed but just, though Madame Mere was very angry when she learned how the will was made."