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Tulkinghorn, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, over the way there, is so good as to act as my solicitor; and grass don't grow under HIS feet, I can tell ye. Krook was Mrs. Smallweed's only brother; she had no relation but Krook, and Krook had no relation but Mrs. Smallweed. I am speaking of your brother, you brimstone black- beetle, that was seventy-six years of age." Mrs.
So he lived, for his own part, on a pound a week, and informed Ada through his solicitor that she must be satisfied with a certain very moderate allowance. Mrs. Peachey naturally laid herself out to give every one as much trouble as possible. Insulting post-cards showered upon her husband at his place of business.
After which a wax-match was lit, and the ends of the tape covered with sealing-wax, and stamped with an old signet-ring. "There, my boy, we'll leave it for the present. Some day I will go and see my solicitor about the matter." Tom uttered a sigh of relief as the documents were locked up, for the sight of them troubled him.
"What has happened to Fred Calverley?" Thorndyke asked, as the solicitor paused. "Why, the fact is," said Mr. Brodribb, "just lately he seems to be going a bit queer not mad, mind you at least, I think not but undoubtedly queer. Now, there is a good deal of property, and a good many highly interested relatives, and, as a natural consequence, there is some talk of getting him certified.
This body of solicitors has an enormous influence upon the conscience of the country more influence than any other class, except, perhaps, that of the parsons. How is the solicitor treated on the stage? Almost always with contempt, at the best as a humble adviser. He is the comic character or the villain; generally, as a further insult, the secondary villain.
Campbell dismissed the circumstance from his mind, and did not even mention it to his wife. But three months had not passed away before Mr. Campbell to a very considerable expense. The solicitor requested Mr. Campbell's instructions, again asserting, that although it was artfully got up, he considered that it was a fraudulent attempt. Mr.
For infinitely smaller loans, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of that day, Montagu, the father of public credit, counter-securing the state by the appearance of the city with the Lord Mayor of London at his side, was obliged, like a solicitor for an hospital, to go cap in hand from shop to shop, to borrow an hundred pound, and even smaller sums.
My solicitor tells me, too, that owing to unfortunate investments there is need of money, so great need, that it is possible that either the estates or the works must go. My cousin has his all in the works iron works, you know. It would be wrong to have him suffer. I shall give up the estates that is best. She paused. 'And come with me, I cried. 'When do you sail?
M'Clinton's; the old solicitor chap in Lincoln's Inn; and you'll have to go there and get the letters. You know his address, don't you?" "Oh, yes. I have to write to him every quarter when he sends me my allowance. You'll explain to him, then, Bob, or he'll simply redirect your letters here." "Oh, of course. I want to go and see the old chap, anyhow, to talk over Aunt Margaret's affairs.
Once, when I thought I had planted a Creamery within the precincts of the town of Rathkeale, my co-operative apple-cart was upset by a local solicitor who, having elicited the fact that our movement recognised neither political nor religious differences that the Unionist-Protestant cow was as dear to us as her Nationalist-Catholic sister gravely informed me that our programme would not suit Rathkeale.
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