I was led to expect that this Seigneury and all in it and on it should be mine.

I know it was intended so.

The law gives it you instead.

Your technical claim has overridden my rights--you have a gift for making successful technical claims.

But these old personal relics, of no monetary value--you should waive your avaricious and indelicate claim to them." He added the last words with a malicious smile, for the hardening look in Racine's face told him his request was hopeless, and he could not resist the temptation to put the matter with cutting force.
Racine rose to the bait with a jump.
"Not one single thing--not one single solitary thing--!" "The sentiment is strong if the grammar is bad," interrupted Fournel, meaning to wound wherever he found an opportunity, for the Seigneur's deformity excited in him no pity; it rather incensed him against the man, as an affront to decency and to his own just claims to the honours the Frenchman enjoyed.