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"The question that you asked," Mr. Marchmont began, looking up curiously at the tall houses opposite, "is very simply answered. The only person immediately interested in the death of Alfred Hartridge is his executor and sole legatee, a man named Leonard Wolfe. He is no relation of the deceased, merely a friend, but he inherits the entire estate about twenty thousand pounds.
Your lean and hungry ones; your envious detractors; your thin maiden-auntish prig republican philosophers: all very wisely sheer off. Anthony's next step is wise too: he appoints himself Caesar's executor, gets hold of the estate, and proceeds to squander it right and left buying up for himself doubtful support.
Leo's cousin and executor, Giulio de' Medici, Pope Clement VII., fulfilled his last wishes by transferring them to Florence, and providing the stately receptacle in which they still repose. The task assigned to Michelangelo, when he planned the library, was not so simple as that of the new sacristy. Some correspondence took place before the west side of the cloister was finally decided on.
Vernon ... should become his property," the home and "mansion-house farm," one share of the residuary estate, his private papers, and his library, and named him an executor of the instrument. Of Washington's relations with his youngest brother, Charles, little can be learned.
Steele's ambition, no doubt, was that he and his friend should go down to posterity together, but the appointment of Tickell instead of himself as Addison's literary executor dashed this hope to the ground. Few things in literary biography are more pathetic than the estrangement between Addison and Steele.
Her dislike for Gaylor was so evident that, to make it less apparent, she lowered her eyes. "My uncle should be able to tell you," she said evenly. "He was my father's executor. But, when he returned my father's papers" she paused and then, although her voice fell to almost a whisper, continued defiantly, "the agreement was not with them." There was a moment's silence.
Rook in a position to be called to account, by those who owe a duty to his memory I mean the surviving members of his family." "There are but two of us, Mr. Morris. My aunt and myself." "There are his executors." "My aunt is his only executor." "Your father's sister I presume?" "Yes." "He may have left instructions with her, which might be of the greatest use to us."
Had it been the purpose of Alexander to test her for the child's sake? She had been given her third and the child the same, with Austen as executor and guardian. In the event of Molly marrying again, she had been given choice. She might relinquish all right in the remaining third and keep the child, or by giving up the child could claim the portion. And the estate was large.
"Then you say the law won't let me pay this money to Sadie Burch whether I am willing to or not?" asked Payson. "Not as executor. As executor you're absolutely obliged to carry out the terms of the will and disregard anything else. You must preserve the estate intact and turn it over unimpaired to the residuary legatee!" repeated Tutt. "But I am the residuary legatee!" said Payson.
Under present circumstances, however, summoned as I have been to the side of his death-bed, by the late Sir Wycherly, himself, and named by him, as one might say, with his dying breath, as his executor, I feel it a duty to inquire into the rights of all parties, and, if possible, to ascertain who is the successor, and consequently who has the best claim to command here."
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