"
"And Grey?" Hannah asked, sorrowfully, knowing how dreary her life would
be with him so far away.
"I shall take him with me," her brother replied, "I shall put him in
school somewhere in England or Germany, and send him eventually to
Oxford. But you will stay here, won't you? I'd rather you would."
"Yes," she answered, still more sadly, for she fully understood the
intense selfishness of the man, who went on:
"I shall be happier, knowing you are here, for I cannot have the house
sold, or rented, or even left alone, lest by some chance the secret of
our lives should be discovered. I am almost as morbid on the subject as
father was: but with you here, I shall feel safe. You can have any one
live with you whom you choose, and I will supply you with plenty of
money. So I do not see why you should not in time be quite content."
"Yes, brother," Hannah said, very low; "but shall I not see Grey for
years?"
"Perhaps not; I don't know," was her brother's reply, as he arose to go,
without a single throb of pity for the woman who was to be left alone in
the home so hateful to him.
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