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Jellicoe has given of the testator?" "I have." "Does that description apply to the person whose remains you examined." "In a general way it does." "I must ask you for a direct answer yes or no. Does it apply?" "Yes. But I ought to say that my estimate of the height of the deceased is only approximate." "Quite so. Judging from your examination of those remains and from Mr.
"I do not know one that will not," spoke up a voice behind our backs. "Your withdrawal from the circle of heirs did not take from you your rightful claim to an inheritance which, according to your uncle's will, could be forfeited only by a failure to arrive at the place of distribution within the hour set by the testator.
Here the judge remarked in a still, small voice that "It would, perhaps, have been even more remarkable if the testator had disappeared gradually and incompletely." "No doubt, my lord," agreed Mr.
26 An afterborn stranger again could not take a legacy; an afterborn stranger being one who on his birth will not be a family heir to the testator; thus a grandson by an emancipated son was held to be an afterborn stranger to his grandfather.
He could reflect also on the likelihood that other offended men of his uncle's age and position would have sulked or stormed, threatening the Parthian shot of the vindictive testator. If there was godlessness in turning to politics for a weapon to strike a domestic blow, manfulness in some degree signalized it.
Then she closed the drawer, leaving the key in the lock, as it had always been, and returned to her room. Having fastened her door, she applied herself to read the document. It was short and simple, and with the exception of a small legacy to Mr. Newton, left all the testator possessed to a man whose name was utterly unknown to her. Mr.
It was not a work in which they themselves were solely interested, but it was an institution which concerned every inhabitant of the Province, and under such feelings the Governors were determined that no obstacles should deter them from following up and prosecuting the views of the testator.
Porthos left a pension to Aramis, who, if he should be inclined to ask too much, was checked by the example of D'Artagnan; and that word exile, thrown out by the testator, without apparent intention, was it not the mildest, most exquisite criticism upon that conduct of Aramis which had brought about the death of Porthos? But there was no mention of Athos in the testament of the dead.
He took the document and gazed at it intently, turning over a page and turning back, for an extraordinarily long time. Audrey said to herself again and again, with exasperated impatience: "He knows now, and I don't know. He knows now, and I don't know. He knows now, and I don't know." At length Mr. Cowl spoke: "It is a perfectly simple will. The testator leaves the whole of his property to Mrs.
It was given in recognition of her talents and business integrity during their late association, and as an evidence of the confidence and "undying affection" of the testator.
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