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'I told you this morning it was a holiday, and he laughed very quietly to himself. 'Look how his nostrils go like a fish's gills. It is a funny way for a gentleman, and he's a gentleman. Every fool knows the Wylders are gentlemen all gentlemen in misfortune. He has a brother that is walking about in his coffin.
Larkin, I hope nothing has happened. The Wylders are all well, I hope? 'Quite well, so far as I am aware, answered the attorney, with a grim politeness; 'perfectly.
The fog makes one cough a little this evening. Larkin's answer, thanks, and enquiries, came gravely in return. And with the same sad smile he looked round on the figures, some marble, some painted stone, of departed Brandons and Wylders, with garrulous epitaphs, who surrounded them in various costumes, quite a family group, in which the attorney was gratified to mingle.
After the return of the Lestranges and the Wylders to their country-homes, lady Ann, having prevailed, on Mrs. Wylder to pay her a visit, initiated an attempt to gain her connivance in her project for the alliance of the houses. For this purpose she opened upon her with the same artillery she had employed against her husband. Mrs.
I had then been his working junior in the cause of Wylder v. Trustees of Brandon, minor Dorcas Brandon, his own cousin. There was a complicated cousinship among these Brandons, Wylders, and Lakes inextricable intermarriages, which, five years ago, before I renounced the bar, I had at my fingers' ends, but which had now relapsed into haze.
What considerable people those Wylders were, and what an antique stock. After this he wished to make a visit to the vicar, and so we parted company. I got into Brandon Park by the pretty gate near Latham.
I'm not half good enough for such company and the place is growing rather cold is not it? 'A great many Wylders, Sir a great many Wylders. And the attorney dropped his voice, and paused at this emphasis, pointing a long finger toward the surrounding effigies.
'And so Dorcas, as swains are seldom passionately in love with so small a pittance as mine, I think I shall mature into a queer old maid, and take all the little Wylders, masters and misses, with your leave, for their walks, and help to make their pinafores. Whereupon Miss Dorcas put her ponies into a very quick trot, and became absorbed in her driving.
The next generation or two would amuse themselves with a lawsuit, until the old Brandon type reappeared in some bachelor brother or uncle, with a Jezebel on his left hand, and an attorney on his right, and, presto! the estates were back again with the Wylders. A 'statement of title' is usually a dry affair. But that of the dynasty of Brandon Hall was a truculent romance.
Captain Lake, after his custom, glared a single full look upon the attorney, sudden as the flash of a pair of guns from their embrasures in the dark; and he said quietly, with a wave of his cane in the same direction 'Yes, a precious lot of Wylders. 'Is there a Wylder vault here, Captain Brandon Lake?
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