"
"Yes, and I wonder how she will manage her trains now going through
the kitchen when it was almost impossible for her to get along the
aisle in Trinity."
"Pride always has a fall," chimed in another.
It was indeed a noteworthy fact that throughout the whole range of
uncharitable remarks made upon the matter not one syllable was
uttered against Marguerite.
On the contrary she excited the compassion of the most callous-
hearted. "Poor Marguerite, she will feel it bitterly."
"Yes, most of all, for she loved her father dearly. It will almost
break her heart to see him looking so ill."
"It was none of her doings I assure you. I have seen much of Miss
Verne, and have learned that her tastes are of the most simple kind,
and if she had her own way they would have lived in a more quiet
style than that of Sunnybank."
The speaker was an intelligent woman of the middle class, whose
business brought her in daily contact with the young lady, and she
had thus formed a correct opinion of her.
Mrs. Montgomery did not wish to intrude upon the privacy of the
stricken man, but she saw that he must be aroused from his apathy.
"It will kill him sooner or later," thought she, "but he must live
to see a change for the better.
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