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"I thought you would like to cherish her ht--" Dorothea

broke off an instant, her i her away from

Aunt Julia's history--"you would surely like to have the miniature as a

fa else! A e must keep his memorials in his head"

Will spoke at rando his petulance; it was a

little too exasperating to have his grandmother's portrait offered hi his words had a peculiar

sting She rose and said with a touch of indignation as well as

hauteur--

"You are "

Will was startled Whatever the wordshis leaning posture, he walked a little way

towards her Their eyeswas keeping their minds aloof, and each was left to

conjecture as in the other Will had really never thought of

hi a claim of inheritance on the property which was held

by Dorothea, and would have required a narrative to

"I never felt it atill now," he said "But

poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from e most