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For he foresaw that, when
such an inheritance became disputed, and was claimed by process of law, it was quite
impossible for him not to get some plunder out of it before it was done with. He
approves of the plan; he advises them to begin to act as speedily as possible, and
to attack a man of that age, and disinclined to law-suits, with as much bluster as
possible.
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