The property, of course, will soon be in my son's possession, where it ought to have been ever since his uncle's death.

Am I not right, then, in calculating on that property as his ?" "Why, the circumstances you speak of are recent; I remember them well enough.

There was a lawsuit about the will ?" "There was, my lord." "And the instrument was proved strictly legal and valid ?" "The suit was certainly determined against us." "I'll tell you what, Mrs.Lindsay; I am certain that I myself would have acted precisely as your brother did.

I know the Goodwins, too, and I know, besides, that they are incapable of reverting to either fraud or undue influence of any kind.

All that you have told me, then, is, with great respect to you, nothing but mere rigmarole.