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"Yes, indeed, I have a great respect for Aunt Podgill," put in Allan; and I thought his voice was rather curious, and there was a repressed mirthful gleam in his eyes, and all the time mother went on crying. "Oh, my dear," she sobbed at last, "I am very foolish to be so overcome; but if it had only come in Frank's in your father's time, it might it might have saved him;" and here she broke down.
"Aunt Podgill, being a cantankerous I mean a prejudiced person, would never have forgotten her grudge against your father; but as in our last moments 'conscience makes cowards of us all, as Shakespeare has it" Uncle Geoffrey always quoted Shakespeare when he was agitated, and Allan said, "Hear, hear!" softly under his breath "she could not forget the natural claims of blood; and so, my dear," clearing his throat a little more, "she has left all her little fortune to your mother; and a pretty little penny it is, close upon seven hundred a year, and the furniture besides."
How good of your Aunt Podgill to make us all so happy! And if it were not for your father " and here the dear soul had recourse to her handkerchief again. If I was silent, no one noticed it; every one was so eager in detailing his or her plans for the future.
It was rather a shock, then, to hear Aunt Podgill's name uttered in a loud voice by Allan, as I entered the room, and my surprise deepened into astonishment to find mother was absolutely crying over a black-edged letter. "Poor Mrs. Podgill is dead," explained Uncle Geoffrey, in rather a subdued voice, as I looked at him.
The old saying, "L'homme propose, Dieu dispose," was true in this case. I had little idea that morning, when I came down to breakfast, that all my cherished plans were to be set aside, and all through old Aunt Podgill.
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