And there is farther, I see" —Mr. Standish was cautiously travelling over the document with his spectacles—" a codicil to this latter will, bearing date March 1, 1828." " Dear, dear!
The second was a codicil, of recent origin, maintaining the annuities to Mrs. Penniman and Mrs. Almond, but reducing Catherine's share to a fifth of what he had first bequeathed her.
The uncle had a son, and Neave had never dreamed of seeing a penny of the money; but the son died suddenly, and the father followed, leaving a codicil that gave everything to our friend.
It's the simplest way of drawing up a will and adding codicils without an attorney, and since I'm still of sound mind, there shouldn't be any problems. I'll ask my neighbors to be witnesses.
" Why, he has made a codicil to his will, to say the property was all to go away from you if you married—I mean—" " That is of no consequence, " said Dorothea, breaking in impetuously.
" I am sure Casaubon was not." " Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know." " I don't know that, " said Sir James.
I say that there never was a meaner, more ungentlemanly action than this—a codicil of this sort to a will which he made at the time of his marriage with the knowledge and reliance of her family—a positive insult to Dorothea!