The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. OPINIONS OF THE LATE DR. NOTT RESPECTING BOOKS, STUDIES, AND ORATORS. CRETAN DAYS. CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC. THE ROSE ROLLINS. ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME? IN THE GRAY GOTH. BUSY BRAINS. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACK. "THE LIE." THE BOWERY AT NIGHT. STEPHEN C. FOSTER AND NEGRO MINSTRELSY. THE FEAST OF HARVEST. A GREAT PUBLIC CHARACTER. THE CONSPIRACY AT WASHINGTON, REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. Lawyer Penhallow was seated in his study, his day's work over, his feet in slippers, after the comfortable but inelegant fashion which Sir Walter Scott reprobates, amusing himself with a volume of old Reports. He was a knowing man enough, a keen country lawyer, but honest, and therefore less ready to suspect the honesty of others. He had a great belief in his young partner's ability, and, though he knew him to be astute, did not think him capable of roguery. It was at his request that Mr. Bradshaw had undertaken his journey, which, as he believed,and as Mr. Bradshaw had still stronger evidence of a strictly confidential nature which led him to feel sure,would end in the final settlement of the great land claim in favor of their client. The case had been dragging along from year to year, like an English chancery suit; and while courts and lawyers and witnesses had been sleeping, the property had been steadily growing. A railroad had passed close to one margin of the township, some mines had been opened in the county, in which a village calling itself a city had grown big enough to have a newspaper and Fourth of July orations. It was plain that the successful issue of the long process would make the heirs of the late Malachi Withers possessors of an ample fortune, and it was also plain that the firm of Penhallow and Bradshaw were like to receive, in such case, the largest fee that had gladdened the professional existence of its members. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28285
Author: Various
Release Date: Mar 9, 2009
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Language: English