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quite knew the extent of his powers and resources, and

he had, I always ood

luck,-as witness the fact that John Marshall Glenarm

had taken a friendly interest in hirandfather, as a 's keeping; and I could

not complain, for I had h, part of

randfather's displeasure that he hadin this

the

situation to the full He sank back in his chair with

an air of complacency that had always been insufferable

in hi to be patronized by a e, and his experience of life seemed to me preposterously

inadequate To find hih randfather's estate,

was hard to bear

But there was so the three preceding years

had been reprehensible I had used randfather

shabbily My parents died when I was a child, and he

had cared for me as far back as my memory ran He

had suffered me to spend without restraint the fortune

left by rievously disappointed him It was his hope that

I should devote reatest ad