A Struggle for a Ring — page 83: what you’re looking at

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A SISTER’S ADVICE. 79 your sister like a lady, and I ought not to have married her, but I am quite sure you will be pleased to hear about our daughter Alice. It appears that she met some rich gentleman when she was abroad, who fell in love with her and who has married her. She did very wrong, though, in running away from your house. She came, with her husband, to see us, and her husband, Mr. Nelson, is, I think, the nicest gentleman I ever met. He was not afraid to shake hands with me; he called mine an honest hand. Poor as I am, I thought more of that shake of the hand than I do of the hundred a year he has so generously settled upon me.” And that letter set the doctor's mind completely at rest. His niece’s marriage was nothing to him, provided she had not inveigled one of his pupils, and so placed him in jeopardy. CHAPTER XI. A SISTER'S ADVICE. ‘‘They are my people, Vivian; and though they may not be the same kind that you are accustomed to, still I love them.” : | ‘‘T should be sorry if you did not love them, Ailie— family ties are the strongest in the world. Mind, | have nothing to say against them, not one word. Your father is a good, honest, simple-minded man; I respect him— indeed, I rather like him than. not; but there can be nothing in common between us, and I still think that the best plan will be to keep our secret faithfully.” KS (elo)