[The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe $30000 Bequest and Other Stories CHAPTER V 3/8
Three several persons remarked, without suspecting what clever shots they were making: "It's as if they'd come into property." That was just it, indeed. Most mothers would have taken hold of the matrimonial matter in the old regulation way; they would have given the girls a talking to, of a solemn sort and untactful--a lecture calculated to defeat its own purpose, by producing tears and secret rebellion; and the said mothers would have further damaged the business by requesting the young mechanics to discontinue their attentions.
But this mother was different.
She was practical.
She said nothing to any of the young people concerned, nor to any one else except Sally.
He listened to her and understood; understood and admired.
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