Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 242: what you’re looking at

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234 LOOKING BACKWARD. “Vou even inherited property left by this aunt of Josephine Armitage. ”’ “Tf it proves, as I now suspect, she shall have every penny of it.”’ “T cannot understand how it could happen, but that has really nothing to do with what is now before us. You suspect—I vow that you are not the child of this aunt of Josephine—that not a drop of the Armitage blood flows in your veins.”’ She gives acry, but says nothing, only sitting there with such a wistful look on her white face that Bob takes compassion upon her and hastens. ‘Vou are a Gordon, and yet you have no right to that name; it has been given to you by your grand- father, who hated the name of your father.’’ “My father—who——”’ | ‘“Have patience. Your mother was a daughter of the strange, vindictive old squire—Ruth Gordon.”’ — “‘Ruth—what a coincidence,’’ she murmurs, but does not explain her meaning. ‘‘She married the man she loved, and was sent from home by her father. Several years passed by, and the squire, whose hatred for your father was intense, learning how happy they were, laid plans to separate them forever. He succeeded only too well.”? ‘‘Oh! and I, in my blind trust, even loved that old man who ruined the lives of my parents.”? She seems to feel this more than anything else, and shows something of anger, for Gypsy has a temper of her own, though she curbs it well. ““My dear wife, another fact you must see from Gomichooksreo in pe)