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He could n't live on £ 200 a-year ; he could n't remain in Dunmore , to be known by every one as Martin Kelly 's brother-in-law ; he could n't endure the thoughts of dividing the property with such `` a low-born huxtering blackguard '' , as he called him over and over again . He could n't stay there , to be beaten by him in the course of legal proceedings , or to give him up amicable possession of what ought to have been -- what should have been his -- what he looked upon as his own . He came back , and sat down again over the fire , contemplating the debris of the fender , and turning all these miserable circumstances over in his mind . After remaining there till five o'clock , and having fortified himself with sundry glasses of wine , he formed his resolution . He would make one struggle more ; he would first go down to the widow , and claim his sister , as a poor simple young woman , inveigled away from her natural guardian ; and , if this were unsuccessful , as he felt pretty sure it would be , he would take proceedings to prove her a lunatic . If he failed , he might still delay , and finally put off the marriage ; and he was sure he could get some attorney to put him in the way of doing it , and to undertake the work for him . His late father 's attorney had been a fool , in not breaking the will , or at any rate trying it , and he would go to Daly .