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"I remember she was standing close by, watching everything I did," said the doctor, his face shining with interest and pleasure. "I shall have to carry her about for clerk. Her father studied medicine you know. It is the most amazing thing how people inherit" but he did not finish his sentence and pulled the reins so quickly that the wise horse knew there was no excuse for not moving forward.
We inherit disharmonies from other conditions of life, like the vermiform appendix and the many other vestigial organs which have come down to us only for harm. In general we inherit bodies and brains fairly well organized for our welfare; but there are still atavisms to be ruthlessly stamped out.
We have no more moral right to squander it foolishly than we have to throw away our bodily strength, our mental energy or our moral worth. When we analyze ourselves we find that there is little of real value in us for which we can claim sole credit. We inherit much from ancestry and draw much from environment long before we are able to choose our surroundings.
"Some forty or fifty thousand dollars between them, all of which the brother must now inherit; and glad am I it falls to so good a fellow." "This is generous praise from you, Drewett; for I have heard this brother might prove your rival." "I had some such fears myself, once, I will confess," returned the other; "but they are all vanished.
Eat your fill of 'em, and throw in some good red wine, and apoplexy will be waiting for you round the corner." "I can't say: I never made such things," said the ex-pastry-cook, gravely. "Nor did I mean to say that I would have them made for my uncle. I am capable of killing, I am capable of shooting or cutting down the man I hate; but it is not in me to kill a man in order to inherit his property.
When the line of Tokugawa arose it divided the country amongst its kinsfolk, and there were many who founded the fortunes of their families upon it. They waited not to ask whether the lands and men that they received were the gift of the Emperor; for ages they continued to inherit these lands until this day.
Sir Roger made no further attempt to give counsel to his son. It was too evidently useless. The old dying lion felt that the lion's power had already passed from him, and that he was helpless in the hands of the young cub who was so soon to inherit the wealth of the forest. But Dr Thorne was more kind to him.
Andrea and Gemma sat together, a little pinched, I thought, but decent and self-contained, like mourners who expect to inherit. Donna Marianna drooped near them, with something black over her head and her face dim with weeping. Roberto received me calmly and then turned to his sister. "Go fetch my wife," he said. While she was gone there was silence.
One might do much worse than inherit both. It seemed but a few years ago that John McDonald had wooed and won Isabella McIntosh, wooed her with difficulty in the bosom of her family of six brothers and five sisters, and won her triumphantly in spite of the open and contemptuous opposition of one of the five sisters.
"What part of France do you come from?" "From Lorraine; my father, who is eighty years old, is the Marquis Desarmoises. He only keeps on living to spite me, for as I married against his wishes he has disinherited me. However, as I am his only son, I shall inherit his property after his death, in spite of him.
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