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Updated: May 20, 2025
Charlotte Halliday was heiress-at-law to the fortune of John Haygarth, always provided that her great-aunt Susan died without legitimate issue. Fourteen years of Susan Meynell's life had been spent away from all who knew her. It was certainly possible that in that time she might have formed some legitimate alliance. This was the problem which Horatio set himself to solve.
Though, legally, the furniture in the forgotten attic might have been transferred to him with the house, he did not consider himself morally entitled to it. "It certainly belongs to the heirs-at-law of the late Mr. Seton," he declared. There was only one heir, or rather heiress-at-law, and that was Loveday. It was decided, therefore, to sell the furniture for her benefit.
"As this only legal marriage," said she, "has been blessed with no issue, I am of course, as you must be aware, the legitimate heiress-at-law, as my deceased husband's nearest blood-relative. I shall, however," she added, "take care to amply provide for my widowed niece-in-law." The young woman made a profound rustic courtesy, and tears of unaffected gratitude, I observed, filled her eyes.
The Charlotte of to-night heiress-at-law to an enormous fortune ward in Chancery claimant against the Crown was a very different person from the simple maid "whom there were none" or only a doating simpleton in the person of the present writer "to praise, and very few to love." The night before last I had hoped so much; to-night hope had forsaken me.
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