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Parchmount observed that "as the deceased lay at a hotel, and as Miss Clavering's presence would not be needed in the performance of the last rites, she would probably forbear the journey to town.
Parchmount, as executor to her uncle's will, relative to the transfer of her portion; and she had asked Dalibard to accompany her thither; for her pride shrank from receiving the lawyer in the shabby parlour of the shabby lodging-house; she therefore, that evening, fixed the next day, before noon, for the visit. A carriage was hired for the occasion, and when it drove off, Mr.
He felt yet that he had fortune and power, that a movement of his hand could raise and strike down, that at the verge of the tomb he was armed, to punish or reward, with the balance and the sword. Tripped in the smug waiter, and announced "Mr. Parchmount." "Set a chair, and show him in." The lawyer entered. "My dear Sir Miles, this is indeed a surprise! What has brought you to town?"
But the next day came a messenger express from London, with a letter from Mr. Parchmount that arrested for the moment even the fierce current of love. When the task had been completed, the will signed, sealed, and delivered, the old man had felt a load lifted from his heart.
"The common whim of the old, sir. I would alter my will." Three days did lawyer and client devote to the task; for Sir Miles was minute, and Mr. Parchmount was precise, and little difficulties arose, and changes in the first outline were made, and Sir Miles, from the very depth of his disgust, desired not to act only from passion. In that last deed of his life, the old man was sublime.
Fielden, with the shrewd instinct of her sex; and then she added, in the spirit of a prudent sympathy equally characteristic: "But I think you say Mr. Parchmount persuaded her to allow half to be settled on herself. That will be a hold on him." "A bad hold, if that be all, Sarah. There is a better, he is a learned man and a scholar. Scholars are naturally domestic, and make good husbands."
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