The ill-judging condescension of your first protectors has left a very troublesome legacy for their successors.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Throughout all these years I have kept up a desultory correspondence with my married sisters; but I have drifted out of their lives, and I realize that I represent to them only a possible legacy.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Why, even considering these leaves as a legacy, should they only contain sorrow?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse