Miss Anne was as sweet and gentle a lady as you'd wish to see; but her will was as hard as the nether millstone." "There's nothing like a death for showing up what a family is made of." "There isn't.

Now Mr.William Farringdon's will was a very cruel one, according to my ideas, leaving everything to his niece and nothing to his son.

True, Mr.George was but a barber's block with no work in him, and I'm the last to defend that; and then he didn't want to marry his cousin, Miss Maria, for which I shouldn't blame him so much; if a man can't choose his own wife and his own newspaper, what can he choose ?--certainly not his own victuals, for he isn't fit.

But if folks only leave their money to them that have followed their advice in everything, most wills would be nothing but a blank sheet of paper." "And if they were, it wouldn't be a bad thing, Mrs.Bateson; there would be less sorrow on some sides, and less crape on others, and far less unpleasantness all round.

For my part, I doubt if Miss Farringdon will leave her fortune to Miss Elisabeth, and her only a cousin's child; for when all is said and done, cousins are but elastic relations, as you may say.