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Potts had accomplished one great aim of his mission: he had married a lady of fortune, and assumed more purity than any one else, and was a sort of self-constituted exponent of the only true doctrines of his church. Arrogant and conceited, he, though a very young man, thrust himself forward as a censor, and very soon was in controversy with Dr. Clapp.
He knew it was not the octavo edition, at Greatwood, that he had been reading, for he distinctly remembered the portrait of Steele in the frontispiece, and Addison's papers on the Paradise Lost, which he had been reading; that very portrait, and those papers, were contained in the volume handed to him by Clapp. Both Mr. Wyllys and Hazlehurst were gratified to find, that Mrs.
Kensington, what can bring you to such a one-horse place as this." "I don't mind telling you, then. The fact is, I've got an old aunt living about two miles from here. She's alone in the world got neither chick nor child and is worth at least ten thousand dollars. Do you see?" "I think I do," said Clapp. "You want to come in for a share of the stamps."
He wished to know what course Mrs. Stanley was disposed to take, as his client's steps would necessarily be guided by her own, and those of Mr. Wyllys and Mr. Hazlehurst. He concluded with a civil hope that the case might be privately adjusted. "Clapp all over," said Harry, as he finished reading the letter. "A most bare-faced imposition, depend upon it!" exclaimed Mr.
"Why should he have waited eighteen years, before he appeared to claim his property? and why should he not come directly to his father's executors, instead of seeking out such a fellow as Clapp? It bears on the very face every appearance of a gross imposture. Surely, Harry, you do not think there is a shade of probability as to the truth of this story?"
Stanley, the step-mother, and young Hazlehurst, are the individuals who stand between him and his rights," continued Mr. Clapp, rising, and walking across the room, as he ran his fingers through his brown curls. "Impossible!" exclaimed Kate, as the fan she held dropped from her hand. "Just what I said myself, at first," replied Mr. Clapp.
Stanley, and then, at this late day, instead of applying directly to the executors, come to a small town like Longbridge, to a lawyer so little known as Mr. Clapp, in order to urge a claim, so important to him as this we are now examining?" asked Mr. Wyllys, with a meaning smile. "We are able to explain all those points quite satisfactorily, I think," replied Mr. Reed.
"Nor I. I mean to live comfortably, but of course I have to be economical." "Oh, hang economy!" said Clapp impatiently. "The old man used to lecture me about economy till I got sick of hearing the word." "It is a good thing, for all that," persisted Ferguson. "You'll think so some day, even if you don't now."
Hazlehurst will not be easily satisfied," added Mr. Clapp, with an approach to a sneer. "Shall we go on, Mr. Reed, or stop the examination?" Mrs. Stanley professed herself anxious to ask other questions; and as she had showed more symptoms of yielding than the gentlemen, the sailor's counsel seemed to cherish hopes of bringing her over to their side. At her request, Mr.
We shall be obliged, however, to proceed with prudence, in order to counteract the cunning of Clapp." After a conversation of some length between the friends, it was agreed that Hazlehurst should answer the letters, in the name of Mrs. Stanley and Mr. Wyllys, as well as his own.
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