"I understand that my late brother has left two illegitimate children;
both of them young women, who are of an age to earn their own
livelihood. Various considerations, all equally irregular, have been
urged in respect to these persons by the solicitor representing them. Be
so good as to tell him that neither you nor I have anything to do with
questions of mere sentiment; and then state plainly, for his better
information, what the motives are which regulate my conduct, and what
the provision is which I feel myself justified in making for the two
young women. Your instructions on both these points you will find
detailed in the next paragraph.
"I wish the persons concerned to know, once for all, how I regard
the circumstances which have placed my late brother's property at my
disposal. Let them understand that I consider those circumstances to be
a Providential interposition which has restored to me the inheritance
that ought always to have been mine. I receive the money, not only as
my right, but also as a proper compensation for the injustice which I
suffered from my father, and a proper penalty paid by my younger brother
for the vile intrigue by which he succeeded in disinheriting me.
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