| Show HARD AND BITTER WILLS It was remarked by a writer long ago that there is no revenge so hard and bitter bit-ter as that of an old man And it is one of the astonishing perversities of many natures that the longer they live the harder they hug their possessions The most disinterested affection is passed over the most faithful and most valuable services are slightly and grudgingly rewarded re-warded This mental and moral disease notably afflicts the richest The Marquis dAligre was a singular example His will was concocted with a special desire to disappoint and insult his relatives friends and servants To the first It said As for you my relatives who have been FO long spelling upon this fortune for-tune on which I had concentrated all my affections you are not going to touch a penny of it and not one of you will be able to boast that you have squandered squander-ed the millions which the old Marquis dAHgre had taken so many years to hoard up Sir Robert Bevil one of James 1s officials offi-cials did not even spare his wife I ghe unto my wife tonne shillings In respect re-spect she took her sonnes part against me and did anymate and comfort him afterward There will not be forgotten And thp Farl r > f ctnp nrrl w > rv > > rrni the daughter of the Due de Grammont writes To th < worst of womn lad > Charlotte dp Grammont unfortunately my wife guilty as she is of all crimes I leave five and forty brass halfpence which will buy a pullet for her supper A better sift than her father can make herThe Westminster Review |
