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But listen, and I will tell you what was the proposal which I made the insane fellow a few hours ago, and made in vain, and then pass judgment upon the feelings of duty by which I am actuated. Our unentailed possessions in Courland are, as you are aware, considerable; the half that falls to me I am willing to renounce, but in favour of his family.
Of course you can say that your Marion is Lady Marion Ricksborough; and I shall say that mine is. And some people will believe you, but most people will believe me. And of course I shall settle a good lump sum on Mary Bride when she marries, and leave her all the unentailed property." "Oh, but it's impossible!" cried the duchess writhing in her chair.
You are to return immediately to England, and come down to his house in shire. It is supposed you will have some contest, but be certain eventually to come in. "You will also, in this visit to Lord Glenmorris, have an excellent opportunity of securing his affection; you know it is some time since he saw you, and the greater part of his property is unentailed.
"My father naturally compares me with him, he so clever, so promising, so regular in his habits, and I such a reckless scapegrace." "And the bulk of your father's property is unentailed; Mr. Hazeldean might disinherit you?" "I deserve it. I hope he will." "You have no brothers nor sisters, no relation, perhaps, after your parents, nearer to you than your excellent friend Mr. Randal Leslie?"
"If you were the first duke in England, Harrington," said he, "with the finest estate, undipped, unencumbered, unentailed; if, consequently, you had nothing to do but to ask and have any woman for a wife; still I should advise you, if you meant to secure the lady's heart as well as her hand, not to begin in this novice-like manner, by letting her see her power over you: neither woman nor man ever valued an easy conquest.
Sir Bysshe's possessions did not, probably, fall short of L200,000. One portion, valued at L80,000, consisted of certain entailed estates, but without Shelley's concurrence the entail could not be prolonged beyond himself; the rest consisted of unentailed landed property and personal property amounting to L120,000.
The next heir to his title and estates was a distant and unmarried cousin, and to him the count determined to marry his daughter, whose beauty and large fortune in money and unentailed estates, rendered any objection to the match on the part of her kinsman a most improbable occurrence.
Should you persist in your refusal to marry Miss Lee, or should the marriage in any way fall through, except from circumstances entirely beyond your control, I must, to use your own admirably emphatic language, ask you to 'understand, once and for all, that, where your name appears in my will with reference to the unentailed and personal property, it will be erased, and that of your cousin George substituted.
He magnanimously deeded the unentailed farm to his wife, turned his securities into cash and then set forth upon a voyage of exploration. It is common history that upon one dark, still night in December he said good-bye forever to the farm and its mistress; but it is doubtful if either of them heard him. To be "jolly well even" with him, Mrs. Skaggs did a most priggish thing.
This was unentailed, and at the will of the Baronet; but should he die intestate the whole would fall to Ralph.
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