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This letter constitutes a genuine and indisputable will in favor of Jean Vernocq. "As Florence was Cosmo Mornington's legal and settled heiress by the mere fact of her presence at yesterday's meeting with the documents proving her descent from the Roussel family, her death caused her rights to pass to her own legal and settled heir.
"Ah, what a fearful contrast to that angelic face was the dark fierce countenance of Dinah North, scowling down upon the expiring saint, and holding in her arms the sinless babe of that sweet mother. "Rachel Mornington's proud handsome features wore their usual stern expression, but her face was very pale, and her lips firmly compressed.
However the evening passed off very pleasantly, Everard was so much occupied with his mother and sisters, that with the exception of making her sing all his favourite songs, he paid even less than usual attention to Isabel. The children are on tiptoe of expectation, anxiously waiting the arrival of the Mornington's, and numerous other guest's.
He married, December 23, 1819, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Doctor John Sale, M.P. for Carysfort, and died January 31, 1758, when he was succeeded by his only son, Garrett, father of the duke of Wellington, who was created in 1760 Viscount Wellesley and earl of Mornington. In October, 1748, Mrs. Delany writes: "Last Monday we set out for Dangan, Lord Mornington's.
I accuse him of entering Cosmo Mornington's room and substituting a phial containing a toxic fluid for one of the phials of glycero-phosphate which Cosmo Mornington used for his hypodermic injections. I accuse him of playing the part of a doctor who came to certify Cosmo Mornington's death and of delivering a false certificate.
Was the being of whom I speak merely one who executed his orders? Or was he also the accomplice who helped him in his scheme? I do not know. But he certainly continued a work which he perhaps began by inspiring and which, in any case, he turned to his own profit, resolutely completed and carried out to the very end. And he did so because he knew of Cosmo Mornington's will.
The rudeness and rashness of Radicalism supplies its place, and the stately and steady march of the landed interest exists no more. Lord Mornington's speech, in 1793, placed the question in its true point of view.
It is he whom I accuse, Monsieur le Préfet. "I accuse him at the very least of that part of the crimes and felonies which cannot be attributed to Hippolyte Fauville. I accuse him of breaking open the drawer of the desk in which Maître Lepertuis, Cosmo Mornington's solicitor, had put his client's will.
"Florence, the Prefect of Police has been led by the logical outcome of those events to come to the final conclusion that the person entering this room with an evident claim to the inheritance is the person who killed the Mornington heirs. You entered the room, Florence, and you are undoubtedly Cosmo Mornington's heir." He saw her shake from head to foot and turn as pale as death.
"She will not keep it, Monsieur le Président." "How do you mean?" "Florence Levasseur doesn't want the money. It has been the cause of unspeakably awful crimes. She hates the very thought of it." "What then?" "Cosmo Mornington's hundred millions will be wholly devoted to making roads and building schools in the south of Morocco and the northern Congo."
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