But then Martha had great gifts,--was never ill, and really liked having sermons read to her.
Such was Miss Stanbury, who had now discarded her nephew Hugh.

She had never been tenderly affectionate to Hugh, or she would hardly have asked him to live in London on a hundred a year.

She had never really been kind to him since he was a boy, for although she had paid for him, she had been almost penurious in her manner of doing so, and had repeatedly given him to understand, that in the event of her death not a shilling would be left to him.

Indeed, as to that matter of bequeathing her money, it was understood that it was her purpose to let it all go back to the Burgess family.

With the Burgess family she had kept up no sustained connection, it being quite understood that she was never to be asked to meet the only one of them now left in Exeter.