If Sir Jarvy would just pass the word now, you'd have a taste of that 'ere custom, that would do your ears good for a twelvemonth.

It's a cheering matter when the one of the trade falls heir to an estate." "And would this be a proper mode of settling a question of a right of property, Sir Gervaise Oakes ?" asked Tom, with more of right and reason than he commonly had of his side; "and that, too, with my uncle lying dead beneath this roof ?" "I acknowledge the justice of the reproof, young sir, and will say no more in the matter--at least, nothing as indiscreet as my last speech.
Sir Reginald, you have the affair in hand, and I recommend it to your serious attention." "Fear nothing, Sir Gervaise," answered he of Hertfordshire.

"Justice shall be done in the premises, if justice rule in England.

Your story, young gentleman, is probable, and naturally told, and I see a family likeness between you and the Wychecombes, generally; a likeness that is certainly not to be traced in the person of the other claimant.

Did the point depend on the legitimacy of Mr.Thomas Wychecombe, it might be easily determined, as I have his own mother's declaration to the fact of his illegitimacy, as well as of one other material circumstance that may possibly unsettle even the late Baron Wychecombe's will.