For my
own part, I can only say that I shall be always ready to assist you
with advice or authority if ever you should find the charge too
onerous for you."
"Thank you," was all she could bring herself to say at that moment,
feeling that her boys were her own, though the next she was
recollecting that this was no doubt the reason Joe had bidden her
live at Kenminster, and in a pang of self-reproach, was hardly
attending to the technicalities of the matters of property which were
being explained to her.
Her husband had not been able to save much, but his life insurance
was for a considerable sum, and there was also the amount inherited
from his parents. A portion of the means which his mother had
enjoyed passed to the elder brother, and Mrs. Brownlow had sunk most
of her individual property in the purchase of the house in which they
lived. By the terms of Joseph's will, everything was left to
Caroline unreservedly, save for a stipulation that all, on her death,
should be divided among the children, as she should appoint. The
house was not even secured to Allen, so that she could let or sell it
as she thought advisable.
"I could not sell it," said Carey quickly, feeling it her first and
only home. "I hope to see Allen practising there some day.
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