She is an artful and designing hussy, and I should like to tell her so to her face." The cold and usually impassible woman was deeply excited.

Her selfish nature made her grudge any of her husband's estate to others, except, indeed, to Godfrey, who was the only person she cared for.

As she thought over the unjust disposition, as she regarded it, which her husband had made of his property, a red spot glowed in her usually pale cheek.
Then it was another grievance that money should have been left to the town.
"What claim had the town on my husband," she thought, "that he should give it five thousand dollars?
In doing it, he was robbing Godfrey and me.

It was wrong.

He had no right to do it.