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And she was very glad also that he did not deign to asseverate that he had been ignorant of his half-sister's plight. Naturally he had been ignorant! She was suddenly happy; she was inspired by an unreasoning joy. She was happy because she was so young and fragile and inexperienced, and he so much older, and more powerful and more capable.
Was not this the obvious answer to the riddle? All along, Louise had wished to marry Mr. Bowling. She might or might not have consciously helped to bring about the rupture between Mr. Bowling and Miss Higgins; she might, or might not, have felt genuinely reluctant to take advantage of her half-sister's defeat. But a struggle had been going on in the girl's conscience, at all events.
"I'm glad you put it in terms that are not actionable, then; for your words are decidedly libellous." "What do you mean?" "I've just been writing Mrs. Lander's will for her, and she's left all her property to Clementina, except five thousand apiece to the half-sister's three children." "I can't believe it!" "Well," said Milray, with his gentle smile, "I think that's safe ground for you. Mrs.
Ground butterflies and air butterflies seemed kin to one another, those rooted to the ground longing for wings, those to whom earth offered no permanent foothold envying their half-sister's rest and peace. Here in the mountains it was spring, though down below in the valleys full summer had come; and toward evening Angela and Nick descended once again to the summer world.
Lander will probably have time enough to change her will as well as her mind several times yet before she dies. The half-sister's children may get their rights yet." "I wish they might!" said Miss Milray, with an impassioned sigh. "Then perhaps I should get Clementina for a while." Her brother laughed. "Isn't there somebody else wants Clementina? "Oh, plenty.
Miss Milray went from Clementina to call upon her sister-in-law, and found her brother, which was perhaps what she hoped might happen. "Do you know," she said, "that that old wretch is going to defraud that poor thing, after all, and leave her money to her husband's half-sister's children?" "You wish me to infer the Mrs. Lander Clementina situation?" Milray returned. "Yes!"
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