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However, this proves nothing anti-poetical, for the essence of that youth was to contradict experience. Jordas had never, in all his born days, not even in the thick of the snow-drift, found himself more in a puzzle than now; and he could not even fly for advice in this matter to Lawyer Jellicorse. The first great gift of nature, expelled by education, is gratitude.
At the back of the house rose a mountain spine, blocking out the westering sun, but cut with one deep portal where a pass ran into Westmoreland the scaur-gate whence the house was named; and through this gate of mountain often, when the day was waning, a bar of slanting sunset entered, like a plume of golden dust, and hovered on a broad black patch of weather-beaten fir-trees. Jellicorse.
And now Mr. Jellicorse was well convinced, as nothing had occurred to disturb that will, and the life of the testator had been sacrificed to it, and the devisees under it were his own good clients, and some of his finest turns of words were in it, and the preparation, execution, and attestation, in an hour and ten minutes of the office clock, had never been equalled in Yorkshire before, and perhaps never honestly in London taking all these things into conscious or unconscious balance, Mr.
Jellicorse answered, with a smile of disbelief, craftily rousing the pugnacity of the man; "because he was not even in the army of the Company, or any other army. I mean, of course, unless there was some other Duncan Yordas." "Tell me!" Jack o' Smithies almost shouted "tell me about Duncan Yordas, indeed! Who he was, and what he wasn't! And what do lawyers know of such things?
Unaided, he might have gone on forever, to the bottom of a butt of Xeres wine; but finding the second glass better than the first, he called to Mrs. Jellicorse, who was in the garden gathering striped roses, to come and have a sip with him, and taste the yellow cherries.
I have thought matters over, and am quite prepared to offer very liberal terms in short, to leave them in possession of Scargate, upon certain conditions and in a certain manner." "Really, Sir Duncan," Mr. Jellicorse exclaimed, "allow me to offer you a pinch of snuff. You are pleased with it? Yes, it is of quite superior quality.
Jellicorse was a just man; but his justice was due to his clients first. After a long brown-study he reaped his crop of meditation thus: "It is a ticklish job; and I will sleep three nights upon it." The ladies of Scargate Hall were uneasy, although the weather was so fine, upon this day of early August, in the year now current.
Jellicorse played with his spectacles and his snuff-box for several minutes before he could make up his mind how to deal with the matter. The dogman could not go without any answer; and how was any good answer to be given in half an hour, at the utmost? A time had been when the lawyer studied curtness and precision under minds of abridgment in London.
You would like me, perhaps, to sign the order for that box of ancient cartularies is not that the proper word for them? And it might be as well to state why they happen to be wanted for purposes of family history." "Madam, I will at once prepare a memorandum for your signature and your sister's." The mind of Mr. Jellicorse was much relieved, although the relief was not untempered with misgivings.
Their knowledge of that deed, and of his possession of it, would make him their master, if he chose to be so. Not that old Jellicorse would think of such a thing. He is a man of high principle like myself, of a lofty conscience, and even sentimental. But lawyers are just like the rest of mankind.
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