I have been clothed with no capacity to talk of wills, or heritages, or your cousin.

I was sent here to make but the one communication: that M.de Keroual desires to meet his great-nephew.' 'Well,' said I, looking about me on the battlements by which we sat surrounded, 'this is a case in which Mahomet must certainly come to the mountain.' 'Pardon me,' said Mr.Romaine; 'you know already your uncle is an aged man; but I have not yet told you that he is quite broken up, and his death shortly looked for.

No, no, there is no doubt about it--it is the mountain that must come to Mahomet.' 'From an Englishman, the remark is certainly significant,' said I; 'but you are of course, and by trade, a keeper of men's secrets, and I see you keep that of Cousin Alain, which is not the mark of a truculent patriotism, to say the least.' 'I am first of all the lawyer of your family!' says he.
'That being so,' said I, 'I can perhaps stretch a point myself.

This rock is very high, and it is very steep; a man might come by a devil of a fall from almost any part of it, and yet I believe I have a pair of wings that might carry me just so far as to the bottom.

Once at the bottom I am helpless.' 'And perhaps it is just then that I could step in,' returned the lawyer.
'Suppose by some contingency, at which I make no guess, and on which I offer no opinion--' But here I interrupted him.