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As we went up the town hill, I could espy Barnes gibbering on the doorstep of his house, and Tallowax brandishing a large knife in his hand, and Exors waving a paper over his head, which I well knew to be a copy of the Act of our Assembly; but I could only pretend not to see them as our carriage passed on.
If I could not be strong to prevail with my own friend and fellow-labourer, with Crasweller, who was the first to come, and who should have entered the college with an heroic grandeur, how could I even desire any other to immure himself? how persuade such men as Barnes, or Tallowax, or that pettifogger Exors, to be led quietly up through the streets of the city? "And you?" I asked again.
There is much error about heirlooms. Many think that any chattel may be made an heirloom by any owner of it. This is not the case. The law, however, does recognise heirlooms; as to which the Exors. or Admors. are excluded in favour of the Successor; and when there are such heirlooms they go to the heir by special custom.
And now, I seem like an eager hunter, that has long pursued a chase after an inconsiderable quarry; and gives over, weary; as I do. p. 537 By JOHN DRYDEN Esq.; Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exors ipsa secandi. Horat. De Arte Poet. To the Right Honourable CHARLES LORD BUCKHURST. My Lord,
Mr Exors is prepared to dispute it, and says that he will ask permission to argue the case out with the executive." "He would argue about anything. You know what Exors is." "And there is that poor man Barnes has gone altogether out of his mind, and has become a drivelling idiot."
Exors, the lawyer, will be the fourth; but he will not come in till a day or two after Crasweller's departure." "They all will come; won't they, sir?" asked Graybody. "Will come! Why, they must. It is the law." "Tallowax swears he'll have himself strapped to his own kitchen table, and defend himself to the last gasp with a carving-knife. Exors says that the law is bad, and you can't touch him.
He would ape madness like Barnes, or arm himself with a carving-knife like Tallowax, or swear that there was a flaw in the law, as Exors was disposed to do. He too would clamorously swear that he was much younger, as did the old women. Was not the world peopled by Craswellers, Tallowaxes, Exorses, and old women?
Exors, the lawyer, would say at once that we did not even attempt to carry out the law; and Barnes, lunatic as he pretended to be, would be very hard to manage. My mind misgave me as I thought of all these obstructions, and I felt that I could so willingly deposit myself at once, and then depart without waiting for my year of probation.
Or again, as he stumbled through the opinions of the judge in "Coopendale versus Drabb's Exors.," the old house and garden would stand out from the page like a miniature seen on the ground-glass of a camera; and Tom Blount sighed and his eyes grew dim as he thought of the old happy days in the pleasant home.
If it had been Tallowax that you were to begin with, or Exors, you might have burnt 'em up without a word from me." "I am gratified at hearing that." "Though the Fixed Period does seem to be horrible, I would have swallowed all that at your bidding. But you can see how I tumbled into it, and how Eva egged me on, and how the nearer the thing came the more I was bound to fight. Will you believe it?
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