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Uncle Benjy's will was discovered within; and by this testament Anne's queer old friend appointed her sole executrix of his said will, and, more than that, gave and bequeathed to the same young lady all his real and personal estate, with the solitary exception of five small freehold houses in a back street in Budmouth, which were devised to his nephew Festus, as a sufficient property to maintain him decently, without affording any margin for extravagances.
Wexford, lives a small farmer named M , who by dint of thrift and industry has reared a large family decently and comfortably. "Some twenty years ago Mr. M , through the death of a relative, fell in for a legacy of about a hundred pounds.
He made his way through the galleries of the booksellers and the National Gallery, which had been open continuously day and night to all decently dressed people now for more than twelve years, and across the rose-gardens of Trafalgar Square, and so by the hotel colonnade to the Embankment.
The scanty worm-worn furniture, the wretched pallet, the poor attire folded decently beside, nothing save that inexpressible purity and cleanliness which, in the lowliest hovel, a pure and maiden mind gathers round it; nothing to distinguish the room of her whose childhood had passed in courts from the but of the meanest daughter of drudgery and toil!
... as the flowers are fed That fill their falling-time with generous breath: Let me attain a natural end of death, And on the mighty breast, as on a bed, Lay decently at last a drowsy head, Content to lapse in somnolence and fade In dreaming once again the dream of all things made.
His father and he set to work, and though without practice in carpentering, yet, by dint of hard labour and after many failures, they at last succeeded; and an organ was constructed which played ten tunes very decently, and the instrument was generally regarded as a marvel in the neighbourhood.
He said that it was the first time they had been treated decently, and they were thankful they had fallen into the hands of some one who appreciated them.
I ask now that the gentleman be confined to questions which are germane to the issue and decently put." "I have but a few more questions to ask," said Goodlaw. Turning to the witness again, he continued: "If you succeed in establishing this boy's identity, you will have a bill to present for care and moneys expended and services performed on his account, will you not?" "I expect so; yes, sir."
It had not altogether been her desire that the coming child should be a boy, although not one word had she breathed of this to Dean Peabody. Their lives had run in tranquil grooves. Everything about their daily routine was as St. Paul suggested, "Decently and in order." The determination to take one of the Greenacre brood had been a sudden one.
Only one thing is certain, that no creature which has life desires to leap into the fire and from the dross of doubts, to resolve the gold or the lead of certainty. "It is time to be going," said Bastin. "In these skies the sun seems to tumble down, not to set decently as it does in England, and if we wait any longer we shall be late for our appointment in the sepulchre.
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