Edgar Jepson

“ At last I thought her quiet enough to tell her that Lord Dymchurch was prepared to repair handsomely the wrong he had done her, as far as money could repair it.
"Well," she said slowly with a vindictive air. "It will hurt the little beast to make him pay. He hates spending money on anyone but himself." ”

“ CHAPTER XIV HELEN RANGER IT was a matter of business, and not very pleasant business, which made me acquainted with Helen Ranger. The firm of Stryke and Hodgson, or rather the Strykes, for Hodgson only came into the firm ten years ago, have been the lawyers of the Dymchurch family for over a hundred years. They have drawn up their marriage settlements and wills and leases, bought and sold property, and conducted two right of way cases for them. ”

“ I am not a member of the firm; but the clerk brought him to me. I took it that my cousin had sent him.
"Good morning," he said, shaking hands with me with uncommon cordiality. "I didn't want to see any of the old jossers, because it's rather an awkward business—in fact it's a woman."
He sat down; and his looks did not give me a pleasant impression of him. He was a fat young man with pink cheeks, thick lips, a turned-up nose, and close-set, rogue's eyes.
"It's like this—rather a mess," he said pulling nervously at his neat little black mustache. "I'm going to marry my cousin, Miss Littlestone ”

“ But I found that she had formed a very sound estimate of the strength of her position. She is not greatly inclined to make terms; she is rather inclined to bring an action against you, and injure you by the publicity entailed by it. ”

“ Three hundred more like—I know him. There must be something I don't know of. I tell you what; you tell him that next week I shall want six thousand and the week after seven. That'll buck the little beast up."
I said all the usual things that the interests of my client demanded, but I did not stir her from her position. ”

“ I have not seen the lady. But you tell me that she is the kind of woman who will bring an action for breach of promise."
"Oh, she is. She has a great deal of character. But I want to pay her as little as possible ”