This, which was an absolute condition attached to the bequest, had been set forth with great minuteness by the lawyer, at the special desire of his client.
Mr.Carley's expression of opinion after hearing this will read need not be recorded here.

It was forcible, to say the least of it; and Mr.
Pivott, the Malsham solicitor, protested against such language as an outrage upon the finer feelings of our nature.
"Some degree of disappointment is perhaps excusable upon your part, my dear sir," said the lawyer, who wished to keep the widow for his client, and had therefore no desire to offend her father; "but I am sure that in your calmer moments you will admit that the work to which your son-in-law has devoted the bulk of his accumulations is a noble one.

For ages to come the sick and the suffering among our townsfolk will bless the name of Whitelaw.

There is a touching reflection for you, Mr.Carley! And really now, your amiable daughter, with an income of two hundred per annum--to say nothing of that reversion which must fall in to her by-and-by on Mrs.Tadman's decease--is left in a very fair position.

I should not have consented to draw up that will, sir, if I had considered it an unjust one." "Then there's a wide difference between your notion of justice and mine," growled the bailiff; who thereupon relapsed into grim silence, feeling that complaint was useless.