Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

dles, and the glow of the west reflected as a gleam into eastern windows. The lawyer was pleased to have it so, and to speak with a dimly lighted face

ot the color or the shape), because he thought it hot for summer, until he remembered what the climate was. Really he could say nothing more, ex

ing, and hope that he was well. As yet it had not become proper for a gentleman, visiting ladies, to yawn, and throw himself into the nearest chair, and cross his legs, and dance one foot, and ask

lished, "you have something important to tell us concerning our poor property here. A small property,

the duchess of whom he indited daily; "properties of that sort come and go, and only tradesmen notice it. Your es

efts, through tales about cattle-lifting. "You must be aware that they came to

simply means possession, or rather the bodily holding of a thing, and is used especially of corpor

ss straightforward. "How often we have wished that our poor lost brother had not been deprived of them! But our

ducing a small roll of parchment sealed in cartridge paper. "Last week I discovered a document wh

s. Our conclusions have never varied, however deeply they may h

her's will, a model of clearness and precision, considering-considering the time afforded, and other disturbing influences. I know for a fact that a copy was laid before the finest draftsman

always understood you to speak highly of it

madam, is that the testator

is own property as he

bsurdity just coming into vogue. "Indulge me one moment. I take this silver dish, for inst

because it belon

ive it because it is not mine to

e interfering. "Mr. Jellicorse assures us that his language is a model of clearness and p

devise you a part only of this property, because the rest

some part of the property? How m

he estates, including this house

; but her sister moved only to stop her

d, with a slight bow and a smile, "let me beg you to expl

pride, perversity, and stiffneckedness. And even Mrs. Carnaby, strengthened by the strength of her sister, managed to look as if nothing more than a tale of some tenant were pending. But this, or ten times this, availed not to deceive Mr. Jellicorse. That gentleman, having seen much

therewith, Philippa Yordas and Eliza Carnaby had no claim whatever, except on the score of possession, until it could be shown that their brother Duncan was dead, without any heirs or assignment (which might have come to pass through a son adult), and even so, his widow might come

before he had any thing to do with it, they were firmly convinced that he ought to have known it, and found a proper remedy. And in the finished manner of well-born lad

poor old Duncombe has left no representatives, even if an action would lie now, which is simply out of the question. On my part no neglec

by replied, "that your zeal had be

her own words, which was not intended. "Whatever is right must be done, of course, according to the rule of our family. In such a case it appears to me that mer

art-there might have been such a very grand long suit, upon which his grandson (to be born next month) might have been enabled to settle for life, and

d the candle-light) came back with a passionate flush in

o, I will never yield a pin's point of my rights, and leave my son a beggar. Philippa, would you make Pet a beggar? And his turtle in bed, before the sun

lant Jellicorse was swept away by her eloquence, mixed with professional views. But it came home to him, from experience with his wife, that the less he said t

hat I can not make my meaning clear, even to my own sister. I said that we first must do the right, and scorn all legal subtleties. That we must maintain unself

"that view of the case never struck

ster Eliza cried; and cried no more, so f