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"Heavenly Father! then you possess it?"
"I do; and if I were never to see her again I don't think she could
recover; she will merely wither away very gently, and in due time will
disappear without issue--and then, whose is the property?"
"As to that, you know there can be no doubt about it; there is the
will--the stupid; will, by which she got it."
"I shall see her again, however--nay, in spite of them I shall see
her time after time, and shall give her the Evil Eye, until the; scene
closes--until I attend her funeral."
"My mind is somewhat at ease," replied his mother; "because I was
alarmed lest you should have had recourse to any process that might have
brought you within the operation of the law."
"Make your mind easy on that point, my dear mother. No law compels a man
to close his eyes; a cat, you know, may look on a king; but of one thing
you may be certain--she dies--the victim is mine."
"One thing is certain," replied his mother, "that if she and Charles
should marry, you are ousted from the property."
"Don't trouble yourself about such a contingency; I have taken steps
which I think will prevent that.
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