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all his wealth That wealth was not fairly divided--one-half being left

to me and the other half to be shared equally between them; but, in my

wicked ambition, I was not satisfied even with that Some of my father's

fierce and cruel nature I inherited; and I resolved to be clear of these

three stu-blocks, and recoence boundless riches could bestow So, secretly, and in

the night, I left my home, with an old and trusty servant, known to you

as Prudence, and e

to say, Prudence was attached to one of them, and to neither of the

rest--that one was Leoline, whom she resolved to keep and care for, and

neither she nor I minded what became of the other two"

"From Paris ent to Dijon, where we dropped Hubert into the turn at

the convent door, with his name attached, and left him where he would

be well taken care of, and no questions asked With the other te

started for Calais, en route for England; and there Prudence got rid

of Honorine in a singularfor the

island of our destination, and she saw a strange-looking little e from the wharf into a boat She had the infant in

her ar rid

of it; and, withoutboxes and

bundles, and, like Hagar, stood afar off to see what becaly little

his goods and chattels you h why, is best known to himself A feeeks after that we, too,

cae a long

way from London Thus you see, Sir Norman, how it co I have done them all"