The other members of the
family all thought this serious manifestation of resentment at his
sister's marriage more or less unreasonable. Count Fosco, though
not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either. He had a
small but sufficient income of his own. He had lived many years
in England, and he held an excellent position in society. These
recommendations, however, availed nothing with Mr. Fairlie. In
many of his opinions he was an Englishman of the old school, and
he hated a foreigner simply and solely because he was a foreigner.
The utmost that he could be prevailed on to do, in after years--
mainly at Miss Fairlie's intercession--was to restore his sister's
name to its former place in his will, but to keep her waiting for
her legacy by giving the income of the money to his daughter for
life, and the money itself, if her aunt died before her, to her
cousin Magdalen. Considering the relative ages of the two ladies,
the aunt's chance, in the ordinary course of nature, of receiving
the ten thousand pounds, was thus rendered doubtful in the
extreme; and Madame Fosco resented her brother's treatment of her
as unjustly as usual in such cases, by refusing to see her niece,
and declining to believe that Miss Fairlie's intercession had ever
been exerted to restore her name to Mr.
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