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The former point might not have stopped her; but the latter would have done so without fail, for her pride was equal to her daring. But poor Mr. Jellicorse had felt the power of a will more resolute than his own, and of grand surroundings and exalted style; and his desire to please had confused, and thereby overcome, his perception of the right.
If you wish me to set my offer plainly before you, and so relieve the property of the cost of a hopeless struggle for I have taken the opinion of the first real property counsel of the age you will, as a token of good faith and of common-sense, produce for my inspection that deed-poll of November 15, 1751." Poor Mr. Jellicorse was desperately driven.
"I am quite certain that it was not Jordas. But I will not pretend to say that it was not a squirrel. He may forego his habitudes more easily than Lancelot." "How horribly dry you are sometimes, Philippa. There seems to be no softness in your nature. You are fit to do battle with fifty lawyers; and I pity Mr. Jellicorse, with his best clothes on." "You could commit no greater error.
Jellicorse made a fine series of bows, not without a scrape or two, which showed his goodly calf; and after that he waited for the gracious invitation to sit down. "If I understood your letter clearly," Mistress Yordas began, when these little rites were duly accomplished, "you have something important to tell us concerning our poor property here. A small property, Mr.
Jellicorse to rest and be thankful for a hot mince-pie, although it had visited this eastern coast as well, was not deep enough there to stop the roads.
Jellicorse exclaimed "certainly never saw these marks before. Diana, where are my glasses?" Mrs. Equipped with these, and drawing nearer to the window, the lawyer gradually made out this: first a broad faint line of red, as if some attorney, now a ghost, had cut his finger, and over against that in small round hand the letters "v. b. c." Mr. Jellicorse could swear that they were "v. b. c."
Mordacks was there, vigorous, vehement, and fit for any business. Jellicorse scorned to meet an illegal meddler with legal matters. If Mordacks had any fault and he must have had some, in spite of his resolute conviction to the contrary it was that he did not altogether scorn revenge.
Jellicorse answered, cheerfully; "and what is even rarer nowadays, I fear, good luck of his wife, Master Jordas." But as soon as the sturdy retainer was gone, and the sound of his heavy boots had died away, Mr.
"It is possible that you desire to abandon our case, and conceive affront where none is meant whatever." "God forbid!" Mr. Jellicorse exclaimed, with his legal state of mind returning. "A finer case never came into any court of law. There is a coarse axiom, not without some truth, that possession is nine points of the law. We have possession.
That gentleman's countenance did not, however, reply with its usual brightness to the mellow salute of evening. Wearied and shaken by the long, rough ride, and depressed by the heavy solitude, he hated and almost feared the task which every step brought nearer. Jellicorse from ignominious flight. He was in for it now, and must carry it through.
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