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LADY MILFORD alone, in extreme agitation, gazing on the door by which LOUISA left. At length she recovers from her stupor. LADY MILFORD. What was that? What preys so on my heart? What said the unhappy one? Still, O heaven, the dreadful, damning words ring in my ears! "Take him! Take him!" What should I take, unfortunate? the bequest of your dying groan the fearful legacy of your despair?
Fanny tells me she supports you by her work. Are you so poor, then? Yet I left you your son's bequest; and you, too, I understood, though not rich, were not in want!" "There was a curse on my gold," said the old man, sternly. "It was stolen from us." There was another pause. Simon broke it. "And you, young man how has it fared with you? You have prospered, I hope."
When Christ was near the Cross, He left His disciples a strange bequest at such a moment, His joy; and that is their brightest portion here, even though it be shaded with many sorrows.
Others fancied he was desirous of getting the orphan off his hands, in the easiest possible way, that he might make a bequest of his whole estate to the Theological Institution that had been coquetting with him now, for several years, through its recognised agents, and to which he had already made the liberal donation of one hundred dollars.
James Innes, who came to America from Canisbay, Caithness, in 1734, by his will gave his plantation, a considerable personal estate, his library, and one hundred pounds "for the use of a free school for the benefit of the youth of North Carolina," the first private bequest for education in the state.
The courts of Pennsylvania have themselves decided that a charitable bequest, which counteracts the public policy of the State, cannot be sustained. This was so ruled in the often cited case of the Methodist Church v. Remington.
And such "seriousness," such high, patient, unwearied seriousness, is, after all, Goethe's bequest to our flippant and fanciful generation. He knows well enough our deepest doubt, our most harrowing scepticism. He has long ago "been through all that."
Ay, and in the purple of it I grasped the ethic, which was the stuff of the fabric of which it was builded. It was the sacred trust of the seed, the bequest of duty handed down from all ancestors. And I flamed more coldly. It was not red-brute anger. It was intellectual.
In this life the old miser never knew that his first judgment had been the just one, but the doubt which seems always to have haunted him whether he had not helped to condemn the innocent was the reason of his bequest to the convict's wife, and explained much of the mysterious wording of the will.
Jerome, his father; an angel, his youngest son, while Martha and Mary are Isabella and Helena, his two wives. He left many sketches "to whichever of his sons became an artist, or to the husband of his daughter who should marry an artist." But there were none such to claim the bequest. The little girl behind Jesus is supposed to represent his future bride, the Christian Church.
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