[One of the 28th by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookOne of the 28th CHAPTER XIV 10/39
Of course he didn't say nothing special about wills, but they felt it, I could see.
Our pew's on the opposite side of the church, and I could see their faces.
Miss Penfold she got white, and pinched up her lips, and if she could have given a piece of her mind to the parson she would have done so; and Eleanor she got red and looked as if she was going to cry. "She is a lot better than her sister, she is; and if any wrong's been done it's the old one that's done it, I am sure, and Martha always said so too.
I could put up with the younger one very well, but I can't abide Miss Penfold." "I am quite anxious to see the room, Jane, after what you have been telling me about it." "Well, you will see it in about a week.
It's always on the first of the month that it is done up; and you will see the old woman will go in with you, and watch you all the time like a cat watches a mouse. Martha used to say so, But there--as you are not from this part of the country, and she won't think as you know nothing about the will or care nothing about it, she won't keep such a sharp lookout after you as she did with Martha." Upon the following Sunday Mrs.Withers, on the way home from church, asked her husband with some anxiety whether he was not well.
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