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Out of the two sister's families, the Ripwinkleys and the Ledwiths, he had chosen these two girls, children almost, whom he declared his "next of kin, in a sense that the Lord and they would know;" and to them he left, in not quite equal shares, the bulk of his large property; the income of each portion to be severally theirs, Desire's without restriction, Hazel's under her mother's guardianship, until each should come to the age of twenty-five years.
One afternoon she had gone down with Desire and Hazel among the shops; Desire and the Ripwinkleys were very busy about Christmas; they had ever so many "notches to fill in" in their rather mixed up and mutable memoranda.
"There must be a real life in it, as long as we can order it so." The Ripwinkleys were to leave Aspen Street, and come here with Hazel. Miss Craydocke, who never had half room enough in Orchard Street, was to "spill over" from the Bee-hive into the Mile-hill house. "She knew just whom to put there; people who would take care and comfort.
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