It consists of a general tontine drawn up before the event of her husband's death 46 years ago, in combination with 635 amendments, notations, corrections, and letters of wishes executed during the subsequent decades.
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The ultimate legality of this accumulation requires further analysis, but in the opinion of this office, it was Madame D's intention that control of the vast bulk of her estate should be transferred, forthwith, to her son, Dmitri, with special allowances for his sisters, Marguerite, Laetizia, and Carolina, and minor gifts for various members of the extended family as shown in the List of Recipients, which I will elucidate in due course.
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At the head of this congregation, it was a disorienting coincidence, we discovered our own Deputy Kovacs, himself an important attorney, of course. He was the executor of the dead widow's estate.
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I understood very little about the events that were to follow. But, eventually, I came to recognize, when the destiny of a great fortune is at stake, men's greed spreads like a poison in the bloodstream.
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Uncles, nephews, cousins, in-laws of increasingly tenuous connection. The old woman's most distant relations had come foraging out of the woodwork.
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I, myself, had never set foot inside a house of this kind in my life.
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I've never forgotten the look on that man's face.
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This is Madame D's last will and testament.
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What the devil is going on?
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A moment later, the kitchen passage swung open and a small servant dressed in white jolted into the room.
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Yes, on one occasion I was arrested and tortured by the rebel militia after the Desert Uprising.
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I think I cannot say right now. Write me tomorrow. Lutzbahn Station!
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How's that supposed to make me feel? Call the police. We're pressing charges.
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You've never heard the word "van Hoytl" in your life. Okay, let's go.
