And my money, as was my own father's gift, and not yours, Mr Glegg; and I've saved it, and added to it myself, and had more to put out almost every year, and it's to go and be sunk in other folks' furniture, and encourage 'em in luxury and extravagance as they've no means of supporting; and I'm to alter my will, or have a codicil made, and leave two or three hundred less behind me when I die,—me as have allays done right and been careful, and the eldest o' the family; and my money's to go and be
Ladislaw in a codicil to his will made not long before his death.
Casaubon's codicil seemed to him, as it did to her, a gross and cruel interdict on any active friendship between them.
Casaubon's codicil, barring Dorothea's marriage with Will, except under a penalty, was enough to cast unfitness over any relation at all between them.
"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 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!
Standish was cautiously travelling over the document with his spectacles—"a codicil to this latter will, bearing date March 1, 1828.
