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There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but

the whole was left to one person, and that person was--O

possibilities! O expectations founded on the favor of "close" old

gentlemen! O endless vocatives that would still leave expression

slipping helpless froatee was Joshua Rigg, as also sole executor, and who

was to take thenceforth the na which see round the

roo, who apparently experienced

no surprise

"A ular testa for once that he should be considered ignorant in the past

"But there is a second will--there is a further document We have not

yet heard the final wishes of the deceased"

Mary Garth was feeling that what they had yet to hear were not the

final wishes The second will revoked everything except the legacies

to the low persons before

the occasion of the codicil), and the bequest of all the land lying in

Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua

Rigg The residue of the property was to be devoted to the erection

and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's

Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of land near Middleht for the purpose by the testator, he wishing--so the