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'In his house, to be sure, that he mid see nothing of what's going on where all good folks ought to be, and this young man likewise. 'Well, he has brought some news, said Lizzy. 'They are going to search the orchet and church; can we do anything if they should find? 'Yes, said her cousin Owlett. 'That's what we've been talking o', and we have settled our line. Well, be dazed!
"Well, not so very much, sir," and Helmsley took off his hat deferentially, standing in an attitude of humility. "It's only a matter of making my Will, I've written it out myself, and if you would be so good as to see whether it is all in order, I'm prepared to pay you for your trouble." "Oh, certainly, certainly!" Here Mr. Owlett took off his spectacles and polished them.
He took his lunch at a small restaurant where he saw city clerks and others of that type going in, and afterwards, strolling up a dull little street which ended in a cul de sac, he spied a dingy archway, offering itself as an approach to a flight of equally dingy stairs. Here a brass plate, winking at the passer-by, stated that "Rowden and Owlett, Solicitors," would be found on the first floor.
She stepped up beside them, and then they went on to the next stage, which, when they had clambered over the dusty bell-carriages, was of easy ascent, leading towards the hole through which the pale sky appeared, and into the open air. Owlett remained behind for a moment, to pull up the lower ladder. 'Keep down your heads, said a voice, as soon as they set foot on the flat.
Owlett leaned back in his chair, blandly surveying his visitor. "I suppose you quite understand that, having made your legatee, Mary Deane, your sole executrix likewise, you give her absolute control?" "Oh yes, I quite understand that!" answered Helmsley. "That is what I wish her to have the free and absolute control of all I die possessed of."
And he smacked his lips as though he had just swallowed a savoury morsel "Amazing! Now if you were he, your Will would be a world's affair a positively world's affair!" "Would it indeed?" And again Helmsley smiled. "Everybody would talk of it," proceeded Owlett, lost in rapturous musing "The disposal of a rich man's millions is always a most interesting subject of conversation!
"It was in the papers some time back." "But it was contradicted," said Owlett quickly. "Ah, but I think it was true all the same," and Prindle shook his head obstinately. "The papers ought to know." "Oh yes, they ought to know, but in nine cases out of ten they don't know," declared Owlett.
As soon as the grey light began to touch ever so faintly the whiter objects in his bedroom he arose, dressed himself, and went downstairs into the road. The village was already astir. Several of the carriers had heard the well-known tramp of Latimer's horse while they were undressing in the dark that night, and had already communicated with each other and Owlett on the subject.
It is unfair of him to impose so upon you, and get your good name into danger by his smuggling tricks. Promise me that the next time he wants to leave his tubs here you will let me roll them into the street? She shook her head. 'I would not venture to offend the neighbours so much as that, said she, 'or do anything that would be so likely to put poor Owlett into the hands of the excisemen.
Stockdale sighed, and said that he thought hers a mistaken generosity when it extended to assisting those who cheated the king of his dues. 'At any rate, you will let me make him keep his distance as your lover, and tell him flatly that you are not for him? 'Please not, at present, she said. 'I don't wish to offend my old neighbours. It is not only Owlett who is concerned.
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