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Still identifying himself with the books he knew, Jimmy Holden had progressed from the fairy story where the villain was evil for no more motive than to provide menace to the hero to his more advanced books, where the villain did his evil deeds for the logical motive of personal gain. Well, what had Paul Brennan to gain? Money, for one thing he would be executor of the Holden Estate.
All real estate not disposed of by will goes to the heir, and the rules of inheritance are quite distinct from those which govern the distribution of chattels. Accordingly, the question arises whether the English heir or successor to real estate presents the same analogies to the Roman heres as the executor. The English heir is not a universal successor.
You will remind me also, that if I disappointed the hopes of my guardians, I did not incur their displeasure; that the bishop, at his death, bequeathed me his blessing, his manuscript sermons, and a curious portfolio containing the heads of eminent divines of the church of England; and that my uncle, Sir Paul Mannering, left me sole heir and executor to his large fortune.
"Did he leave them comfortably off in the world?" she asked, after a brief silence. "I don't know; but I'm afraid, he's not left much, if any thing. Mr. Jasper has been appointed the executor." "Mr. Jasper!" "Yes. This morning he called to see Mrs. Elder, and found her in a very low state. In fact, she died while he was there." "Edward! Died?"
This will was drawn up in August last. I was ignorant of the whole subsequent proceeding, and at that time Mr. Monfort laid peculiar stress on your coincidence as executor. Has any thing occurred since that time to mar your good understanding?" "Nothing of any consequence," said Mr. Stanbury, coldly "nothing bearing on the esteem of man for man. Nevertheless, Mr.
On the same day, which was March 5th, he gave a receipt to the publisher for three other publications, written or to be written, so that very probably it was not expected that he should immediately supply all the matter sold. In the summer he seems to have gone down to Bath on a short visit, and to have made friends with the Beau's executor, Mr. George Scott.
Indeed, the banker thought kindly of six-thirty as an hour at which in earlier days he had been endowed with a better appetite than he ever possessed now at eight o'clock or later. While they were at table a telegram was handed to Cornish. It was from Lord Ferriby's solicitor in London, and contained the advice that Tony Cornish had been appointed sole executor of his lordship's will.
You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
We embarked once more on board the little Leon Belge for Gibraltar, well pleased with our brief visit to the curious Moorish capital. The Sultan of Morocco is supreme, and holds the lives and fortunes of his subjects at his will. He is judge and executor of laws which emanate solely from himself. Taxation is so heavy as to amount to prohibition in many departments of enterprise.
So he did the usual thing. He looked round among his relations, and, failing them, the friends of his youth. For an emperor, popularly supposed to have the whole world to choose from, has no larger a choice than any bourgeois looking round his own small world for a satisfactory executor.
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