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I went cold at the station when they told me that my aunt was dead, and I have been shivering ever since. Never mind me; it will go off presently." Lionel drew a chair to the other side of the fire, compassionately regarding her. He could have found in his heart to take her in his arms, and warm her there. "What was that about a codicil?" she suddenly asked him. "When my aunt wrote to me upon Mr.
In a codicil to his will, dated Valladolid, May 4, I 506, he bequeathed to 'his beloved home, the Republic of Genoa, the prayer-book which Pope Alexander had given him, and which in prison, in conflict, and in every kind of adversity, had been to him the greatest of comforts. It seems as if these words cast upon the abhorred name of Borgia one last gleam of grace and mercy.
Fortunately for him, his grandfather having early discerned that he had considerable talents, determined that he should have all the advantages of education, which he thought would prepare him to shine in parliament. His grandfather, however, died when Temple was yet scarcely eighteen. He had put off writing a codicil to his will, by which Temple lost the provision intended for him.
She was not far wrong. Unsuspicious Tynn went headlong into the snare. "Where would be the good of hunting for it again when every conceivable place was hunted for it before?" he asked. "Well, it was a curious thing, that codicil," remarked Roy. "Has it never been heered on?" Tynn shook his head. "Never at all. What an awful thing this is, if it's true!" "It is true, I tell ye," said Roy.
A very short silence followed my protest, after which I saw the Chief- President say something in a low tone to M. le Duc d'Orleans, then arrange a deputation of the Parliament to go in search of the King's will, and its codicil, which had been put in the same place. Silence continued during this great and short period of expectation; every one looked at his neighbour without stirring.
Briefly stated, the purport of the codicil was as follows: Whereas, at divers times and in sundry places, certain persons had asserted that during his life the testator had robbed their sluice boxes; therefore, if during the five years next succeeding the date of this instrument any one should make proof of such assertion before a court of law, such person was to receive as reparation the entire personal and real estate of which the testator died seized and possessed, minus the expenses of court and a stated compensation to the executor, Henry Clay Brentshaw; provided, that if more than one person made such proof the estate was to be equally divided between or among them.
Verner was brought forward and laid upon the table. Lionel, taking his late uncle's keys from his pocket, unlocked it, and delivered a parchment which it contained to Mr. Matiss. The lawyer saw at a glance that it was the old will, not the codicil, and he waited for Lionel to hand him also the latter. "Be so kind as read it, Mr. Matiss," said Lionel, pointing to the will.
His father, he said, had been an old fool, an ass, an idiot, a vulgar, ignorant fool; but he was not a man to break his word. That signature to the codicil might be his or might not. If his, it had been obtained by fraud. What could be easier than to cheat an old doting fool?
It seems, therefore, probable that this so-called Codicil was written in the quiet minutes of the morning, while the fleet was forming its order of sailing and bearing up for the enemy, but before the admiral's cabin was cleared for battle.
"We must do something for Oline, too," said Uncle Sivert, "she being a widow and not well off. There'll be enough for little Sivert, anyhow." Eleseus managed it with a few strokes of the pen; a mere codicil to the last will and testament, and lo, Oline was also a sharer in the inheritance. "I'll look after you," said Uncle Sivert to her.
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