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"
"Stuff and nonsense!" he repeated, growing more and more excited. "That
woman is dead before this, and her heirs, if she had any, scattered to
the winds. People never miss what they never had, and they will not miss
this paltry sum. Promise me, that you will drop this insane idea of
restitution and never reveal what you know, even after Geraldine and I
are dead, should you outlive us both. Think of the disgrace to the
Greys."
And so, worried, and worn, and half crazed with fatigue and excitement,
Hannah bound herself again, and, had not Grey already known the secret,
Elizabeth Rogers' heirs would never have heard of the tin box in the
chimney, from which place Hannah brought it at last to show the contents
to her brother, who, perfectly sure that she would keep her word, could
calmly examine the will and scan the features of the young girl upon the
ivory.
"She is very lovely," he said, "though evidently she belongs to the
working class; her dress indicates as much. But whoever she is or was,
she is not like this now; she is old or dead.


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