"
It was a lame and impotent conclusion, but it seemed to satisfy the
gentleman, who clasped her hand and kissed it with fervour, wrung
that of Allen, which was readily yielded, and would have done the
same by that of Bobus, if that youth had done more than accord very
stiff cold tips.
Immediately after, John said at the door—-
"Aunt Caroline, my father is here. Will you see him?"
That was something to be got over at once, and she went to the
Colonel, who was very kind and pitiful to her, and spared her the "I
told you so." He did not even reproach her with being too lenient,
in not having turned the pair at once out of her house; indeed, he
was wise enough to think the extremity of a quarrel ought to be
avoided, but he undertook to make every inquiry into Mr. Demetrius
Hermann's history, and observed that she should be very cautious in
pledging herself as to what she would do for him, since she had, as
he expressed it, the whip-hand of him, since Janet was totally
dependent upon her.
"Oh! but Robert, I forgot; I don't know if there is anything for
anybody," she said, putting her hand to her forehead; "there's that
other will! Ah! I see you think I don't know what I am saying, and
my head is getting past understanding much, but I really did find the
other will last night.
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