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"Dear, dear!" said sister Martha, notto be audible, but driven

to soin by reading the earlier will," continued Mr Standish,

"since such, as appears by his not having destroyed the document, was

the intention of deceased"

The prea, and several besides Soloround: all eyes avoided

other eyes, and were chiefly fixed either on the spots in the

table-cloth or on Mr Standish's bald head; excepting Mary Garth's

When all the rest were trying to look nowhere in particular, it was

safe for her to look at theive and

bequeath" she could see all co subtly, as if soh the He

sat in unaltered calm, and, in fact, the company, preoccupied with more

i to bequests

which ht not be revoked, had ceased to think of him Fred

blushed, and Mr Vincy found it ih he kept it closed

The small bequests came first, and even the recollection that there was

another will and that poor Peterdisgust and indignation One likes to be done

well by in every tense, past, present, and future And here was Peter

capable five years ago of leaving only two hundred apiece to his own

brothers and sisters, and only a hundred apiece to his own nephews and

nieces: the Garths were not mentioned, but Mrs Vincy and Rosamond were

each to have a hundred Mr Truold-headed cane