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"Why, if you will promise to marry me within a year of widowhood, I will undertake to get twenty thousand francs for it from Elie Magus; and unless you marry me you will never get a thousand francs for the picture." "Why not?" "Because you would be obliged to give a receipt for the money, and then you might have a lawsuit with the heirs-at-law.
The cottage at Terneuse had long fallen into ruin; for many years it waited the return of its owners, and at last the heirs-at-law claimed and recovered the substance of Philip Vanderdecken.
Powerful as flexible were the arms he stretched forth to grasp all prizes in the way of heirs-at-law and disputed heritages, unclaimed railway-stock, and forgotten consols.
Mr Masterton then entered into a detail with Lady de Clare as to what steps ought immediately to be taken, as the heirs-at-law would otherwise give some trouble; and having obtained her acquiescence, it was time to withdraw. "Mr Newland, I trust you will consider us as your warmest friends.
Mr Masterton then entered into a detail with Lady de Clare as to what steps ought immediately to be taken, as the heirs-at-law would otherwise give some trouble; and having obtained her acquiescence, it was time to withdraw. "Mr Newland, I trust you will consider us as your warmest friends.
"What an abominable woman!" her glance said. Naylor smiled a despairing acquiescence. The strangers chief mourners, heirs-at-law, owners now of the place wherein they stood looked round the bare brick walls of the little rotunda. Naylor examined it with interest too the old story was a quaint one. Mary stood at the back of the group, smiling triumphantly. How had he disposed of everything?
But might not his attention have been attracted by that advertisement for heirs-at-law to the Haygarthian estate which appeared in the Times? These are questions with which the legal intellect of my Sheldon may best grapple. For myself, I can only drift with the resistless stream called life. I was so unfortunate as to make my appearance in our common sitting-room five minutes after my patron.
They married people sometimes by their Christian names alone very often under assumed names. What consideration had they for heirs-at-law in the future, when under the soothing influence of a gin-bottle in the present? I thought of all these circumstances, and I was half inclined to despair of realising my idea of an early marriage.
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.
Their affairs arranged, having first made their wills in favour of each other with remainder to their heirs-at-law, since it was scarcely to be hoped that both of them would return alive from such a quest, they received the Communion, and with it his blessing from the hands of the Prior John. Then early one morning, before any were astir, they rode quietly away to London.
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