Egotistic she had known Grier to be, and she imagined the will to be a sudden result of anger.

He was dead and buried.

The places that knew him knew him no more.

All in an hour, as it were, the man Tarboe--that dominant, resourceful figure--had come into wealth and power.
After Junia read the substance of the will, she went springing up the mountain-side, as it were to work off her excitement by fatigue.

At the mountain-top she gazed over the River St.Lawrence with an eye blind to all except this terrible distortion of life.