"
"You may give all to them if you please."
"Of course I may, and I dare say I shall," said Miss Jack, who was
beginning to be irritated. "But at any rate you might have the
civility to listen to me when I am endeavouring to put you on your
legs. I am sure I think about nothing else, morning, noon, and
night, and yet I never get a decent word from you. Marian is too
good for you; that's the truth."
But at length Miss Jack was allowed to open her budget, and to make
her proposition; which amounted to this--that she had already told
Mr. Leslie that she would settle the bulk of her property conjointly
on Maurice and Marian if they would make a match of it. Now as Mr.
Leslie had long been casting a hankering eye after Miss Jack's money,
with a strong conviction however that Maurice Cumming was her
favourite nephew and probable heir, this proposition was not
unpalatable. So he agreed to go down to Mount Pleasant and look
about him.
"But you may live for the next thirty years, my dear Miss Jack," Mr.
Leslie had said.
"Yes, I may," Miss Jack replied, looking very dry.
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