7/26 It would be better if you came and sat down by me and heard me out. Look now! I want Abellino to wait in vain for the hour of my death. I want my estates not to go to him, but to another. Do you understand ?" "Of course! You would cut him off with a shilling." "Why, man, you understand nothing. My estates are hereditary; I cannot leave them to whom I will--that depends on the law of succession, and the law of succession is eternal. |