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He concluded by declaring that the regency was impossible under such conditions, and that he doubted not the wisdom of the assembly would annul a codicil which could not be sustained, and the regulations of which would plunge France into the greatest and most troublesome misfortune. Whilst this prince spoke a profound and sad silence applauded him without explaining itself.
He represented, with more force than could have been expected from his demeanour at this second sitting, but yet with measure, that since he had been stripped of the authority confided to him by the codicil, he asked to be discharged from the responsibility of answering for the person of the King, and to be allowed simply to preserve the superintendence of his education.
Castleford and my mother, but by this codicil, Clarence was substituted for the former. The legacies did not come out of the Chantry House property, for my father had, of course, means of his own besides, and bequests had accrued to both him and my mother; but Clarence was inheriting the estate much more burthened than it had been in 1829, having 2000 pounds a year to raise out of its proceeds.
But he came down again. He is in bed with burned hands and a scorched face. If I had told him once to let that dangerous play alone dangerous in his hands I had told him ten times." "Where's the codicil?" inquired Mr. Massingbird, smoking away. "In Matiss's charge. You'd like to be present, I suppose, at the time of its being opened?" "I can take your word," returned John Massingbird.
Stay, here are a few lines; a codicil, I fancy, affixed with seals to the body of the will I can hardly make it out." And as Mr. Harper perused it, his wife observed his countenance change. He let the paper drop, and sat silent. "What is it? Read,", cried Harrie Dugdale. "I cannot Anne, will you?
And the answer is correct, right and proper; but a codicil should then be added to the effect that the germ of greatness is in every man, but we fall victims of arrested development, and success or society, like a worm i' the bud, feeds on our damask cheek. Philip was nipped in the bud by falling into the protecting shadow of Olivarez.
Lionel put the lines in his pocket, and pushed the glove toward Mrs. Verner. "I do not understand it in the least," he said. "My uncle appears to have found the glove somewhere, and he writes to say that he returns it to me. The chief matter that concerns us is" turning his eyes on the servants "that it is not the codicil!" Mrs. Tynn lifted her hands. "How one may be deceived!" she uttered. "Mr.
Julius laid his hand kindly on his brother's arm. "Don't trifle with such a serious matter as this," he said. "Your marriage is, in every sense of the word, a misfortune not only to you but to your wife. It is impossible that you can live together. I have come here to ask you to consent to a separation. Do that and the provision made for you in the unsigned codicil is yours. What do you say?"
"I can testify that the codicil was locked in the desk, and the desk was then returned to the closet, for I happened to be present," spoke up Dr. West. "I was one of the witnesses to the codicil, as I had been to the will. Mr. Verner must have moved it himself to some safer place." "What place could be safer than the desk in his own bedroom?" cried the lawyer.
He took up a lengthy document and read the last codicil: "Since the above will was written and acknowledged, leaving The Gaffs to be equally divided between my two grandsons, Thomas and Richard Travis, my country has been precipitated into the horrors of Civil War.
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