Your answer would be that:
the paragraph's meaning changes slightly. First, it meant that that 'you' were the one in line to inherit the special or unordinary piece. Now, the paragraph means that 'you' were the one in line to inherit the piece in which has great value.
When Victoria was told by her father that he and his mother were shifting the bureau downstairs, she conclude that her parents are pinching it because everything that was in grandfather's room had to be equally divided among the two sisters.