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But the more Rachel saw of her cousin, the more she realized this peril

When she went down on Mondayto complete the matters of business

that had been slurred over on the Saturday, she found that Fanny had

not the slightest notion what her own income was to be All she kneas that her General had left everything unreservedly to herself, except

£100 and one of his swords to Major Keith, as executor to the

will, and had gone to London to "see about it," by which word poor Fanny

expressed all the business that her eneral wished to put a major in te so? Rachel even thought that Fanny's incapacity to

understand business had made her mistake the terms of the bequest, and

that Sir Stephen must have secured his property to his children; but

Fanny was absolutely certain that this was not the case, for she said

the Major had

theuardians "I did

not like putting such a charge on ht to appoint a relation, and I had no one else! And I

knew you would all be good to them, if they had lost me too, when baby

was born"