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He did not care to make sacrifice now to any of the world's graces. His inner mind was hostile to that attorney of Bucklersbury, and he could dare to show that it was so. After that, Mr. Stickatit made no further remark to him. Yes; he could afford now to be forgetful of the world's graces, for the world's heaviest cares were pressing very heavily on him.
Firstly, that George Stickatit, junior, of the firm of Day and Stickatit, and George Bertram, junior, his nephew, should be his executors; and that a thousand pounds each should be given to them, provided they were pleased to act in that capacity.
Bertram, perhaps you can allow me to speak to you somewhere for five minutes?" "I shall act," said George. "Oh, of course. That's of course," said Stickatit. "And I also." "Stop one moment, gentlemen," shouted Harcourt again. "I hereby give you both warning that you have no power to act." "Perhaps, sir," suggested Stickatit, "your lawyer will take any steps he may think necessary?"
You will perhaps make nothing at the bar, and certainly never the half what you would have done with Messrs. Dry and Stickatit. But that's your affair. The bar is thoroughly respectable. By-the-by, is your father satisfied with it as a profession?" This was the first allusion that Mr. Bertram had made to his brother. "Perfectly so," said George. "Because of course you were bound to consult him."
He knew that he was to have nothing; and although, now that the moment had come, he felt that wealth might possibly have elated him, still the absence of it did not make him in any degree unhappy. But it did make him uncomfortable to think that he should be commiserated by Mr. Pritchett, sneered at by Harcourt, and taunted by his father. "Well, gentlemen, are we ready?" said Mr. Stickatit again.
They were all ready, and so Mr. Stickatit began. I will not give an acute critic any opportunity for telling me that the will, as detailed by me, was all illegal. I have not by me the ipsissima verba; nor can I get them now, as I am very far from Doctors' Commons. So I will give no verbal details at all. The will, moreover, was very long no less than fifteen folios.
Now Mr. Bertram had been a member of the Honourable Company of Fishmongers. And that was the end of the will. And Mr. Stickatit, having completed the reading, folded it up, and put it back into the envelope. Sir Henry, the moment the reading was over, again dashed his fist upon the table. "As heir-at-law," said he, "I shall oppose that document." "I think you'll find it all correct," said Mr.
"A beautiful day outwardly, Sir Lionel," sighed Mr. Pritchett. "But the occasion is not comfortable. We must all die, though; all of us, Mr. George." "But we shall not all of us leave such a will as that behind us," said Mr. Stickatit. "Come, gentlemen, are we ready? Shall we sit down?" George got a chair for his father, and put it down opposite to that of Sir Henry's. Mr.
But, believing as I do that she would rather not be disturbed, I shall not say where you would find her." "I think you ought, George." "Father, you do not understand this matter." "You will not escape in that way, sir. Here you are named as her trustee in this will " "I am glad that you acknowledge the will, at any rate," said Mr. Stickatit. "Who says that I acknowledge it?
Sir Henry Harcourt had plainly demanded at what hour the will would be read; and Mr. Stickatit, junior Mr. George Stickatit of the firm of Dry and Stickatit, had promised to be at Hadley punctually at two P.M. And he kept his word. Mr. Pritchett came down by an early train, and, as was fit on such an occasion, was more melancholy than usual.
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