On the contrary, she was deeply incensed at the two legacies of which mention has been made above.
"Was ever anything more absurd than to waste five thousand dollars and a house upon that Irish boy and his mother ?" she said to herself.

"I don't suppose it was so much my husband's fault.

That artful woman got around him, and wheedled him into it.

I know now why she was so willing to come here and take care of him when he was sick.

She wanted to wheedle him into leaving money to her low-lived boy.