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Hants; with whom the main branch, or rather stock, of the house had renounced all connection since the great law-suit in 1670.
Hodgkinson's namesake and relation disdained the ten thousand pounds legacy, and claimed the whole property as heir-at-law. Almeria, who was utterly unacquainted with business, applied to Mr. Elmour in this difficulty, and he had the goodness to undertake the management of her affairs. Frederick engaged to carry on her law-suit, and to plead her cause against this rapacious Mr. Hodgkinson of Hull.
Drama, at its best, is clumsy, arbitrary, unsatisfying, by comparison. But what makes a law-suit the most fascinating, to me, of all art-forms, is that not merely its material, but the chief means of its expression, is life itself. Here, cited before us, are the actual figures in the actual story that has been told to us.
The baron must really have started to leave the room, for his wife exclaimed: "One word more: have you quite decided?" "Oh, fully!" "You are resolved to leave me exposed to the persecutions of my dressmaker?" "Van Klopen is too charming and polite to cause you the least worry." "You will brave the disgrace of a law-suit?" "Nonsense!
In case actual securities were required he felt no doubt of Popinot's devotion, from whom he expected to obtain some thirty thousand francs, which would enable him to await the result of his law-suit by satisfying the demands of the most exacting of the creditors.
A tradesman without his books, in case of a law-suit for a debt, is like a married woman without her certificate. How many times has a woman been cast, and her cause not only lost, but her reputation and character exposed, for want of being able to prove her marriage, though she has been really and honestly married, and has merited a good character all her days?
Thus Reginald Morton had been friendless since his grandfather died, and had lived in Germany, nobody quite knew how. During the entire period of this law-suit Hoppet Hall had remained untenanted. When the property was finally declared to belong to Reginald Morton, the Hall, before it could be used, required considerable repair. But there was other property.
I viewed the dispute as a kind of law-suit, in which I supposed the parties would find a way either to decide or settle it. I had no thoughts of independence or of arms. The world could not then have persuaded me that I should be either a soldier or an author.
Martin took him by the shoulders and roughly turned him out of doors; which occasioned great scandal and a law-suit. Candide got well again, and during his convalescence he had very good company to sup with him. They played high. Candide wondered why it was that the ace never came to him; but Martin was not at all astonished.
"It seems to me," the elder lady continued, "that there is only one point from which we ought to consider the question and that is, its effect on Denis. But for that we ought to refuse to know anything about it. But it has made my boy so unhappy. The law-suit was a cruel ordeal to him the dreadful notoriety, the revelation of poor Arthur's infirmities.
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