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Mr. Meeson’s Will

CHAPTER XXII
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ST.

GEORGE'S, HANOVER-SQUARE.
The Court broke up in confusion, and Augusta, now that the strain was over, noticed with amusement that the dark array of learned counsel who had been fighting with all their strength to win the case of their clients did not seem to be particularly distressed at the reverse that they had suffered, but chatted away gaily as they tied up their papers with scraps of red tape.

She did not, perhaps, quite realize that, having done their best and earned their little fees, they did not feel called on to be heart-broken because the Court declined to take the view they were paid to support.

But it was a very different matter with Messrs.

Addison and Roscoe, who had just seen two millions of money slip from their avaricious grasp.


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