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"Very good; then it is not only about the memorial to the Academy for the prize of virtue, but also about an investment of your legacy that you have so long been desirous of consulting me?" "Monsieur is so kind, so charitable, so encouraging!"
Simple nervous prostration would seem to the uninitiated better fought in the exhilirating ozone of Colorado, or the North Pole than in this languorous atmosphere. 'An inherited tendency. Is this the pleasant little legacy which my respected ancestor has bequeathed to his only grandson? It skipped the Judge, but it caught poor Uncle Lenox, and now it has nabbed me!
So Jim drew out a part of his legacy from the bank, and deposited half in Mark's hands; the other half he took with him to the coachman's cottage. Oh! It was a grand thing to be allowed to sit with such company, and to hear the wonderful stories of the gentlemen who condescended to come and place their stores of gold and silver within a poor footman's reach.
Thereupon she had laughed shrilly and reviled so bitterly the contemptible blind Fortune that remains most loyal to those who deserve to perish in the deepest misery, that Bias avoided repeating her words to his master. The news of Myrtilus's legacy had not reached her ears, and Bias, too, had just heard of it for the first time.
It was now two years since Robert had inherited a small legacy of money from an aunt, and spent it in waste, as the farmer bitterly supposed. He was looking at some immense seed-melons in his garden, lying about in morning sunshine a new feed for sheep, of his own invention, when the call of the wanderer saluted his ears, and he beheld his son Robert at the gate.
Well, there seems no more for us to do here. We have found out the value of your legacy, and may lock the trunk again. If you will lend a hand, we will take it across to my house, so that there may be no delay when the stage calls in the morning." "All right, sir." James Leech was looking out of the front window, awaiting the return of Mr. Spencer and Herbert with not a little curiosity.
They pant for an opportunity of revenging that humiliation; and if a contest, ending in a victory on their part, should ensue, elating them in their turn, and leaving its cursed legacy of hatred and rage behind to us, there is no end to the so-called glory and shame, and to the alternations of successful and unsuccessful murder, in which two high-spirited nations might engage.
Soon it came out that John Ruskin was one of the executors named in the will, with a legacy of £20 for a mourning ring: "Nobody can say you were paid to praise," says his father. It was gossipped that he was expected to write Turner's biography "five years' work for you," says the old man, full of plans for gathering material.
This referred to a certain sum of money which had been left by the old Duke to Madame Goesler, as she was then called, a legacy which that lady had repudiated. The money had, in truth, been given away to a relation of the Duke's by the joint consent of the lady and of the Duke himself, but the Duchess was pleased to refer to it occasionally as a still existing property.
So he was buried, and his eldest son fared forth with his legacy dangling from his girdle in its long, straight, lovely scabbard, blue velvet, with emeralds on it, fared forth on foot along a road of Spain.
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