And if we have won," he said -- "why, it will be a new life, it will be a transformation! The ticket is yours, but if it were mine I would, first of all, spend twenty-five thousand on property in the shape of a country estate; ten thousand on immediate expenses, new furniture . . . travelling . . . paying debts, and so on. . . . The other forty thousand I would put in the bank and get interest on it.