Adventures and adventurers > Adventures of Roderick Random

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with me a second time. ■ When we enteri?!
his chamber we advanced to tire bed-side,
where we found him i» the last a^ome.^,
i supported by two ot his grand-daughters: -
: 1 know not whether he* saw my uncle, jsho
approached him, saying, Here’s poor Kory
come to see you before you die, and receive
your bussing: but the dying man turned
, his-suuk eyes twards us, without being able
j|. to make a rt'jjiy ; which my uncle perceivihg, .
i thought proper to retire into another room,
, where we1 were soon convinced of my grand-*
I father’s decease, by the cries of tire young
i ladies in his apartment; but mv uncle, not
;| s.rtisfied, insisted on-sceing the Will,"and tiiat,
i till such time, ‘every desk and cabinet in thti
! house should remain close sealed. They
t made him welcome to be witness of this
j! ceremony, which was immediately performed
to Ins satisfaction. Bnt the reader can scarce
conceive the astonishment that app*. artfd,'
when the day came, and an attorney pro¬
nounced the1’young squire sole heir of his
grandfather's estate, personal atfd reitl.—
My uncle, who had listened with gre-.t at¬
tention. accompanied the w'bfds of the at-
Itorney with a stare, broke out in curses
against the deceased, and departed. In our
way to the village, niv uncle plesircd me not
to be cast down, telling me 1 .should go to
sea with him. Though this did not suit iviy
iaatdmation, I was afraid ef ’discovering ray
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