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"Well, sonny, are you going to be a lawyer?" he asked, as he seated himself by the window, and looked about him, first at the dusty litter of old papers, pamphlets, and tape-bound documents in bundles which crowded the stuffy chamber, and then at the boy himself.
"'Oh, as to that, said the lawyer, laughing, 'she has the right to do it, since she robs only herself. "'I will take her with her Deschartres before the justice of the peace, said my mother. 'I will make her take oath by Christ, by the Gospel!
As I have told you, Samuel, old Lord Compton, was very cruel to my mother in her widowhood, and I hotly determined never to have anything to do with him. Then his son and his grandson died within a few weeks of each other, and Mr. Clay, who is the family lawyer, wrote to me telling me that I was the next heir, and Cousin Samuel wanted me to go home and take up the duties of my new position.
And I've copied out this form " She was hardly conscious of his laying papers on the table before her. "It's valid, as I've fixed things. The lawyer gave me some paper. It has a watermark five years old. I've dated back two years quite enough. So when we've signed, the marriage never could be contested not even by ourselves." He took the papers from the table, laid them in her lap. She started.
Jarvis had come to Cheemaun this summer and had asked her lawyer to sell all this property. And now it would appear that old Sandy's farm was for sale, too. For Sandy had no deed of his property; in fact, had merely worked it for Mr. Jarvis, who, Sandy declared, had told him that all south of the Birch Creek belonged to him.
"How did you decide that the James Cunningham mentioned in the license you saw was the younger one?" "By the age given." "How did my uncle take the news when you told him?" "He took it standing," the lawyer said. "Didn't make any fuss, but looked like the Day of Judgment for the man who had betrayed him." "What did he do?" "Wrote a note and called for a messenger to deliver it." "Who to?"
Comrade Mary, with her thin, eager face of a religious zealot, made everyone share her fervour. All save Lawyer Norwood. Since the retirement of Dr. Service he was the chief pro-ally trouble-maker, and he now made a little speech.
Now, the lawyer had often dreamed of fifties, hundreds, and even of thousands; but fortune had been so fickle with him, that he had never been in possession of bank-notes higher than five or ten dollars, except one of the glorious Cairo Bank twenty-dollar notes, which his father presented to him in Baltimore, when he advised him most paternally to try his luck in the West.
"I do," replied Lawyer Ball, taking notes of her confusion. "Come, it's over and done with it's of no use to deny it now. We all go upon visits to friends sometimes." "I never heard anything so bold!" cried Afy. "Where will you tell me I went next?"
'I don't know what on earth he should do there except that I think him just the fellow to intrude where he is not wanted. And yet Will was in his heart despising Captain Aylmer because he had not already hurried down to the assistance of the girl whom he professed to love. 'He is engaged to her, you know, said the lawyer, in a low voice.
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