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He was quite as fond of his money as Sir Joseph. He ought to have felt for his client; but rich men have no sympathy with one another. Mr. Dicas openly despised Sir Joseph. There was a pause. The robin-redbreasts in the shrubbery outside must have had prodigious balances at their bankers; they hopped up on the window-sill so fearlessly; they looked in with so little respect at the two rich men.
Birds seek their nests when the night falls beasts hasten to their lairs man bolts his door. `Propria quae maribus, as Herodotus hath it; which, when translated, means, that `such is the nature of mankind. `Tribuuntur mascula dicas, `Tell me your troubles, as Homer says."
Dicas here? What can you have been thinking of?" Turlington did not attempt to answer the question. "Am I interested," he asked, "in what you have been saying to Mr. Dicas?" "You shall judge for yourself," answered Sir Joseph, mysteriously; "I have been giving Mr. Dicas his instructions for making my Will. I wish the Will and the Marriage-Settlement to be executed at the same time.
And then said the angel, NON DICAS IMMUNDA, QUE DEUS MUNDAVIT. And that was in token that no man should have in despite none earthly man for their diverse laws, for we know not whom God loveth, ne whom God hateth. And for that example, when men say, DE PROFUNDIS, they say it in common and in general, with the Christian, PRO ANIMABUS OMNIUM DEFUNCTORUM, PRO QUIBUS SIT ORANDUM.
Sir Joseph rose, apparently for the purpose of giving special importance to the terms in which he answered his lawyer's question. "I appoint," he said, "as sole executor and trustee Richard Turlington." It was no easy matter to astonish Mr. Dicas. Sir Joseph's reply absolutely confounded him.
"En quoque quod mirum, Quod dicas denique dirum, Sanguinem equus sugit, Neque bellua victa remugit!" "And, yet more strange! his veins a horse shall drain, Nor shall the passive coward once complain!" It is farther asserted, in the concluding lines, that the horse shall suck the lion's blood.
The only question is, whom you will get to put into them." "True," said the squire, with much gravity. "Yes, there it is!" said the parson, mournfully. "If you would but learn 'non quieta movere'!" "Don't spout your Latin at me, Parson," cried the squire, angrily; "I can give you as good as you bring, any day. "'Propria quae maribus tribuuntur mascula dicas.
It was only when the lawyer's brutally plain language forced his attention to it that the question of his pecuniary interest in his father-in-law's death assumed its fit position in his mind. His color rose; and he too showed that he was offended by what Mr. Dicas had just said. "Not a word, Richard! Let me speak for you as well as for myself," said Sir Joseph.
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