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"But it seems to me, Miss Shott," said Mrs. Ferguson, "that Mrs. Cliff has done ever so much for the people of Plainton. For instance, there are those blankets. What perfectly splendid things they are, so soft and light, and yet so thick and warm! They're all wool, every thread of them, I have no doubt." "All wool!" said Miss Shott. "Of course they are, and that's the trouble with them.
It seems a pity for three people to go sailing around in a big vessel like that with most of the state-rooms empty; but, of course, people are not prepared yet for country weeks at sea! And it will take some time to make my plans known in the proper quarters." "I don't suppose," said Willy, "that there's anybody in Plainton that we could send for on short notice.
How are you going to explain your prosperous condition to your friends? When I was in Plainton, I thought of you as so much better off than myself in this respect, for over here there would be no one to pry into your affairs. I did not know you had friends in Paris." "All that need not trouble me in the least," said Edna. "When I went to school with Edith Southall, who is now Mrs.
Cliff's property, and what her particular friends had said, were matters which none of them wanted repeated, and when a citizen of Plainton did not wish anything repeated, it was not told to Miss Shott. But after Miss Shott had gone, there came in Mrs. Ferguson, a widow lady, and shortly afterwards, Miss Inchman, a middle-aged spinster, accompanied by Mrs. Wells and Mrs.
No remark immediately followed this, for each lady was thinking that she, probably more than any one else in Plainton, had a claim upon Mrs. Cliff's attention if she were leaving her property to her friends, as she certainly ought to do. In years gone by Mrs. Cliff had been a very kind friend to Miss Cushing.
Cliff very glad to remain at Plainton was one of paramount importance. She was now engaged in a great work which satisfied all her aspirations and desires to make herself able to worthily and conscientiously cope with her income. When, after the party on the Summer Shelter had separated at New York, and the ex-members of the Synod had gone to their homes, Mrs.
I dare say you could buy another house such as you own in Plainton, and scarcely miss the money. Compared to your health and happiness, the loss of that house, even if it should burn up while you are away, would be as a penny thrown to a beggar." "And there is my new trunk," said Mrs. Cliff, "with my blankets and ever so many things locked up in it." "Let it stay there," said Edna.
It made her grind her teeth to think of the way that Miss Shott was talking of her, and it was not long before she made up her mind that she ought to speak to Edna on the subject, and she did so. "Go home!" exclaimed the latter. "Why, Mrs. Cliff, that would be impossible just now. You could not go to Plainton without letting people know where you got your money." "Of course I couldn't," said Mrs.
She could afford the warmest fire of the best seasoned wood; her chimney was in perfect order, and she was but fifty-five years old and in excellent health; why should she not enjoy the exhilarating blaze, and plan for years of exhilarating occupation. Soon after Mr. Burke left Plainton Mrs. Cliff began work upon the new park.
Burke might fancy large grounds, and he was certainly able to have them if he wanted them. Whatever people said and thought about Mrs. Cliff and her money, it was generally believed that she was in comfortable circumstances. Still, it had to be admitted that she was getting on in years. Now arose a very important question among the gossips of Plainton: who was to be Mrs. Cliff's heir?
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