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Gilmore is the old and tried friend of two generations of Fairlies, and we can trust him, as we could trust no one else." The marriage-settlement! The mere hearing of those two words stung me with a jealous despair that was poison to my higher and better instincts.
To whom should I trust, if not to my own brother?" At these hearty words Major Harper's face, quick in every mobile expression of feeling, betrayed much discomposure. He walked the room in a mood of agitation, compared to which the bridegroom's own restlessness was nothing. Then he went to the farther end of the apartment, and hurriedly read over the marriage-settlement.
I explained to her the object of a marriage-settlement, and then told her exactly what her prospects were in the first place, on her coming of age, and in the second place, on the decease of her uncle marking the distinction between the property in which she had a life-interest only, and the property which was left at her own control.
He had been pottering over a will, but it was never completed, nor even quite planned; and after much doubt and scrutiny, it was at last ascertained that, in default of a will and of issue, a clause in the marriage-settlement gave the entire estates to the Dowager Lady Mardykes.
Personal negotiations will then probably take place between the lady friends, and all things proving satisfactory, the fathers or brothers of the might-be pair discuss the dowry and marriage-settlement from a strictly business point of view. At this stage the bride-elect will perhaps be thought not fat enough, and will have to submit to a course of stuffing.
He was less impulsive in his nature than his sister, and did not open his eyes and talk with watering mouth of the seven thousands of pounds a year; but in his quiet way he had weighed and calculated all the advantages to be gained, had even ascertained at what rate he could insure the lady's life, and had made himself certain that nothing in the deed of Lord Ongar's marriage-settlement entailed any pecuniary penalty on his widow's second marriage.
He answered, "It was this my wife," and told them all that had befallen him, adding, "Verily my father-in-law hath bound me to pay a marriage-settlement of ten thousand dinars for her, and they have given me ten days' time." Said one of the Dervishes, "Have no care and think of naught but good; for I am Shaykh of the Convent and have forty Dervishes under my orders.
He had spent very little of his married life at Oldclough Hall, and upon his death his widow had found herself possessed of a substantial, gloomy mansion, an exalted position in Slowbridge society, and a small marriage-settlement, upon which she might make all the efforts she chose to sustain her state.
By her mother's marriage-settlement, Ford Bank was held in trust for the children of the marriage; the trustees being Sir Frank Holster and Mr. Johnson.
Both the others were taken rather aback, especially as Cosin continued to seem very much in earnest. "There must be a marriage-settlement of some sort." "Assuredly," Tournier replied, relieved, but still somewhat puzzled. "Whatever you think right, I shall be delighted to do." "Do you really mean that?" said Cosin, still very seriously. "Indeed I do.
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