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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III ON FAMILY MATTEKS. I HAVE before told you how death came into our house to visit my grandfather, more like a friend than an enemy, so gently and tenderly did he take him away, but it was very different when he took my father. We all felt, every one in the house, that we could not spare my father, and yet he was gone with little more warning than his father, before his time, before he had retired, and before he had settled his affairs. He made his will, indeed, some time before, and in it he had left all his property to his dear wife for her life, and after her death to me. Mr. Ball, as was not unnatural, seeing the respect my father had for him, was sole executor and trustee. But for some time we could not think of affairs or money; all that iny mother knew was, that the mainstay of the house was gone, and I knew it, and the servants knew it. It happened, you know, that the Christmas holidays were very close, so there was no necessity for my return to school, so my mother and. I spent them in grief and retirement, and it was not till they were almost over that either of us cared to attend to business, and we only lifted our heads to do so at the request of Mr. Ball and of our solicitor, who, as it turned out, was Mr. Ball's, lawyer as well. I remember very well Mr. Ball coming with the solicitor by appointment to see my mother, . and my being present by her desire at the interview. Now you all know there are lawyers and lawyers. Some people swear by their lawyers, and others at them. Some would do without them if they could, others would have them always at their elbow if it wasn't so expensive. I am not at all sure that my mother had ever seen our lawyer in her life; my father, it seems, had kept his affairs very much to himself, and the lawyer and M...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217484725 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217484727 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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