"I did think of bringing in a bill for providing heirs for unmarried persons, without the trouble and responsibility of making wills." "That would have been a great improvement on the law of descents--I hope you wouldn't have overlooked the ancestors." "Not I--everybody would have got his rights.

They tell me poor Charles never spoke after he was shot; but I dare say, did we know the truth, he regretted sincerely that he never married." "There, for once, Wycherly, I think you are likely to be wrong.

A _femme sole_ without food, is rather a helpless sort of a person." "Well, well, I wish he had married.

What would it have been to me, had he left a dozen widows ?" "It might have raised some awkward questions as to dowry; and if each left a son, the title and estates would have been worse off than they are at present, without widows or legitimate children." "Any thing would be better than having no heir.

I believe I'm the first baronet of Wychecombe who has been obliged to make a will!" "Quite likely," returned the brother, drily; "I remember to have got nothing from the last one, in that way.