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So trust in Him, then shall you have 'boldness in the day of judgment. 'Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of Hosts is His name: He shall thoroughly plead their cause. JER. l. 34. Among the remarkable provisions of the Mosaic law there were some very peculiar ones affecting the next-of-kin.

If you wish to preserve her from all manner of worry and annoyance, you will take care to keep her in the dark until the affair is settled supposing it ever should be settled. I have known such an affair to outlast the person interested." "You take a very despondent view of the matter." "I take a practical view of it. My brother George is a monomaniac on the next-of-kin subject."

Fraisier told Villemot, "and I did not think it necessary to tear him away from business; he would have come too late, in any case. He is the next-of-kin; but as he has been disinherited, and M. Schmucke gets everything, I thought that if his legal representative were present it would be enough." Topinard lent an ear to this.

Fraisier told Villemot, "and I did not think it necessary to tear him away from business; he would have come too late, in any case. He is the next-of-kin; but as he has been disinherited, and M. Schmucke gets everything, I thought that if his legal representative were present it would be enough." Topinard lent an ear to this.

"Ah, yes . . . my poor Cibot!" said she. "When I think that he will not live to enjoy anything I may get " "It is a question of finding out whether M. Pons has left you anything at all; whether your name is mentioned or left out, in fact," he interrupted. "I represent the next-of-kin, and to them you must look in any case. It is a holograph will, and consequently very easy to upset.

I may point out that this idea was only accredited generally during the last years of Pavlicheff's life, when his next-of-kin were trembling about the succession, when the earlier story was quite forgotten, and when all opportunity for discovering the truth had seemingly passed away. No doubt you, Mr. Burdovsky, heard this conjecture, and did not hesitate to accept it as true.

It gave him time to collect his wits, which had lost their poise when that wicked-looking little skull was, so to speak, thrust forcibly into his recollection. "In a word," he said, at last, "you are Mrs. Lester's next-of-kin and probably her heiress?" "Yes, I suppose so, though I was not thinking of that," came the tearful answer.

We owe a return in kind, where we feel no obligation for a favour; and consign our possessions to our next-of-kin as mechanically as we lean our heads on the pillow, and go out of the world in the same state of stupid amazement that we came into it!...Caetera desunt.

On a large farm near Portarlington there once lived a Mrs. , a strong-minded, capable woman, who managed all her affairs for herself, giving her orders, and taking none from anybody. In due time she died, and the property passed to the next-of-kin.

I was startled by the expression of cousin Monica's face. She looked ghastly and angry. "To whom," she asked, with an effort, "will the property belong in case in case my cousin should die before she comes of age?" "To the next heir, her uncle, Mr. Silas Ruthyn. He's both heir-at-law and next-of-kin," replied the attorney.