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So she agreed to accompany Cousin Clotilda to London, and to stay with her at the town-mansion of the Macganister More, who had just departed this life, leaving the whole of his property to the said Cousin, his only daughter and heiress.
"By-the-by, did you ever see the Macganister More man that died the other day? Married the Earl's half-sister?" "Never. Of course, I know Clotilda perfectly well." "Let's see oh yes! she's Sister Nora. Oh yes, of course I know Clotilda. She's his heiress, I fancy comes into all the property no male heir. She'll go over to Rome, I suppose." "Why?" "Always do with a lot of independent property.
That was the arrangement agreed upon. But before they departed, they paid a visit to Granny Marrable at Chorlton, who was delighted at the reappearance of Sister Nora, and was guilty of some very transparent insincerity in her professions of heartfelt sorrow for the Macganister More. He, however, was very soon dismissed from the conversation, to make way for Dave Wardle.
If he had killed Achilles, it is ten to one Gwen would have gone abroad with her mother, instead of being spirited away to Cavendish Square by her cousin in order that she should thereby become entangled in slums. Or for that matter, why not the death of the Macganister More? Had he been living still, Cousin Clo would never have visited Ancester Towers at all. No no!
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