and especially his duty to see that it should go from his hands, at his death, unimpaired in extent or value.  There was no reason why he should himself die for the next twenty or thirty years,—­but were he to die Sir Felix would undoubtedly dissipate the acres, and then there would be an end of Carbury.  But in such case he, Roger Carbury, would at any rate have done his duty.  He knew that no human arrangements can be fixed, let the care in making them be ever so great.  To his thinking it would be better that the estate should be dissipated by a Carbury than held together by a stranger.  He would stick to the old name while there was one to bear it, and to the old family while a member of it was left. ...