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after the property!to look over the papers察and to look after the
property。 We shall make good our title。 It is in the hands of my
solicitor。 Mr Tulkinghorn察 of Lincoln¨s Inn Fields察 over the way
there察 is so good as to act as my solicitor察 and grass don¨t grow
under his feet察 I can tell ye。 Krook was Mrs Smallweed¨s only
brother察she had no relation but Krook察and Krook had no relation
but Mrs Smallweed。 I am speaking of your brother察you brimstone
black´beetle察that was seventy´six years of age。 ̄
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Mrs Smallweed instantly begins to shake her head察and pipe up察
^Seventy´six pound seven and sevenpence Seventy´six thousand
bags of money Seventy´six hundred thousand million of parcels of
banknotes 院
^Will somebody give me a quart pot拭院exclaims her exasperated
husband察 looking helplessly about him察 and finding no missile
within his reach。 ^Will somebody obleege me with a spittoon拭Will
somebody hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her拭You
hag察 you cat察 you dog察 you brimstone barker 院 Here Mr
Smallweed察wrought up to the highest pitch by his own eloquence察
actually throws Judy at her grandmother in default of anything
else察by butting that young virgin at the old lady with such force as
he can muster察and then dropping into his chair in a heap。
^Shake me up察somebody察 if you¨ll be so good察院 says the voice
from within the faintly struggling bundle into which he has
collapsed。 ^I have come to look after the property。 Shake me up察
and call in the police on duty at the next house察to be explained to
about the property。 My solicitor will be here presently to protect
the property。 Transportation or the gallows for anybody who shall
touch the property 院 As his dutiful grandchildren set him up察
panting察and putting him through the usual restorative process of
shaking and punching察 he still repeats like an echo察 the!the
property The property property 院
Mr Weevle and Mr Guppy look at each other察 the former as
having relinquished the whole affair察the latter with a discomfited
countenance察 as having entertained some lingering expectations
yet。 But there is nothing to be done in opposition to the
Smallweed interest。 Mr Tulkinghorn¨s clerk comes down from his
official pew in the chambers察 to mention to the police that Mr
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Tulkinghorn is answerable for its being all correct about the next
of kin察 and that the papers and effects will be formally taken
possession of in due time and course。 Mr Smallweed is at once
permitted so far to assert his supremacy as to be carried on a visit
of sentiment into the next house察 and upstairs into Miss Flite¨s
deserted room察where he looks like a hideous bird of prey newly
added to her aviary。
The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the
court察 still makes good for the Sol察 and keeps the court upon its
mettle。 Mrs Piper and Mrs Perkins think it hard upon the young
man if there really is no will察 and consider that a handsome
present ought to be made him out of the estate。 Young Piper and
Young Perkins察as members of that restless juvenile circle which is
the terror of the foot´passengers in Chancery Lane察 crumble into
ashes behind the pump and under the archway察 all day long察
where wild yells and hootings take place over their remains。 Little
Swills and Miss M。 Melvilleson entered into affable conversation
with their patrons察feeling that these unusual occurrences level the
barriers between professionals and non´professionals。 Mr Bogsby
puts up ^The popular song of KING DEATH with chorus by the
whole strength of the company察院as the great harmonic feature of
the week察and announces in the bill that ^J。 G。 B。 is induced to do
so at a considerable extra expense察in consequence of a wish which
has been very generally expressed at the bar by a large body of
respectable individuals and in homage to a late melancholy event
which has aroused so much sensation。 ̄ There is one point
connected with the deceased察upon which the court is particularly
anxious察 namely察 that the fiction of a full´sized coffin should be
preserved察 though there is so little to put in it。 Upon the
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undertaker¨s stating in the Sol¨s bar in the course of the day察that
he has received orders to construct ^a six´footer察院 the general
solicitude is much relieved察 and it is considered that Mr
Smallweed¨s conduct does him great honour。
Out of the court察and a long way out of it察there is considerable
excitement too察 for men of science and philosophy come to look察
and carriages set down doctors at the corner who arrive with the
same intent察 and there is more learned talk about inflammable
gases and phosphuretted hydrogen than the court has ever
imagined。 Some of these authorities of course the wisest hold
with indignation that the deceased had no business to die in the
alleged manner察 and being reminded by other authorities of a
certain inquiry into the evidence for such deaths察reprinted in the
sixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions察and also of a book
not quite unknown察 on English Medical Jurisprudence察 and
likewise of the Italian case of the Countess Cornelia Baudi as set
forth in detail by one Bianchini察prebendary of Verona察who wrote
a scholarly work or so察and was occasionally heard of in his time as
having gleams of reason in him察 and also of the testimony of
Messrs。 Foder└ and Mere察 two pestilent Frenchmen who would
investigate the subject察and further察of the corroborative testimony
of Monsieur Le Cat察 a rather celebrated French surgeon once
upon a time察 who had the unpoliteness to live in a house where
such a case occurred察and even to write an account of it察still they
regard the late Mr Krook¨s obstinacy察in going out of the world by
any such by´way察as wholly unjustifiable and personally offensive。
The less the court understands of all this察the more the court likes
it察 and the greater enjoyment it has in the stock in trade of the
Sol¨s Arms。 Then察there comes the artist of a picture newspaper察
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with a foreground and figures ready drawn for anything察 from a
wreck on the Cornish coast to a review in Hyde Par