Leslie about you and Marian."
"Then you had no business to do anything of the kind," said Maurice,
blushing up to his ears.
"Nonsense," replied Miss Jack, "I understand what I am about. Of
course Mr. Leslie will want to know something about the estate."
"Then he may go back as wise as he came, for he'll learn nothing from
me. Not that I have anything to hide."
"So I told him. Now there are a large family of them, you see; and
of course he can't give Marian much."
"I don't care a straw if he doesn't give her a shilling. If she
cared for me, or I for her, I shouldn't look after her for her
money."
"But a little money is not a bad thing, Maurice," said Miss Jack, who
in her time had had a good deal, and had managed to take care of it.
"It is all one to me."
"But what I was going to say is this--hum--ha. I don't like to
pledge myself for fear I should raise hopes which mayn't be
fulfilled."
"Don't pledge yourself to anything, aunt, in which Marian Leslie and
I are concerned."
"But what I was going to say is this; my money, what little I have,
you know, must go some day either to you or to the Leslies.
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