10/27 "She has been so good as to ask me to be one of the witnesses." "Aye? You are over twenty-one, and you have not the slightest pecuniary interest in Lady Verinder's Will." Not the slightest pecuniary interest in Lady Verinder's Will. Oh, how thankful I felt when I heard that! If my aunt, possessed of thousands, had remembered poor Me, to whom five pounds is an object--if my name had appeared in the Will, with a little comforting legacy attached to it--my enemies might have doubted the motive which had loaded me with the choicest treasures of my library, and had drawn upon my failing resources for the prodigal expenses of a cab. Not the cruellest scoffer of them all could doubt now. Much better as it was! Oh, surely, surely, much better as it was! I was aroused from these consoling reflections by the voice of Mr. |