To two charities she gave annually L5 per annum each.
Duty demanded it, and the money was given.

Beyond that she had never been known to spend a penny in charity.

Duty, she had said more than once, required of her that she do something to repair the ravages made on the Morton property by the preposterous extravagance of the old squire in regard to the younger son, and that son's--child.

In her anger she had not hesitated on different occasions to call the present Reginald a bastard, though the expression was a wicked calumny for which there was no excuse.

Without any aid of hers the Morton property had repaired itself.