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Then in a voice broken with emotion, she said: "Thanks, Mr. Kage. Will you please now to read my dear papa's letter? since you are to read it aloud, I think," she added. "Such was the deceased Sir Lemuel's direction, my dear Miss Levison," said the lawyer.
The next morning Mr. Kage and his clerk went back to London. It now became an anxious question, whether the marriage of the young Duke of Hereward and the heiress of Lone should proceed according to her father's wishes. Mr. Kage, the family attorney, urged it: Dr.
"We must, however, be guided by your father's will, which I am happy to know is in entire harmony with your own wishes. And that brings me to what I wished to say. Kage, your late father's solicitor, is in possession of his last will. He could not follow the custom, and read it immediately after the funeral, because your illness precluded the possibility of your presence at its perusal.
Kage arrived at Lone, within twenty-four hours after having received the duke's telegram. He reached the castle at noon and had a private interview with the duke in the library, when it was arranged that the will and the letter should be read the same afternoon in the presence of the assembled household. "The letter also?
Give me a little time, dear John, to recover some strength to overcome my sorrow." Here she broke down and wept. "I think we had best take her back to her room," said Lady Belgrade, rising. Mr. Kage locked up the documents in the japanned box, put the key in his pocket-book, and consigned the box to the care of his clerk.
Kage, I said that I thought I knew its purport from certain conversations I had held with your late father.
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