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"Yes; where is Mona?" says Jack, looking up from the cup she has just given him. Now, old Sir George Rodney, grandfather of the present baronet, had two sons, Geoffrey and George. Now, Geoffrey he loved, but George he hated. And so great by years did this hatred grow that after a bit he sought how he should leave the property away from his eldest-born, who was George, and leave it to Geoffrey, the younger,—which was hardly fair; for "what," says Aristotle, "is justice?—to give every man his own." And surely George, being the elder, had first claim. The entail having been broken during the last generation, he found this easy to accomplish; and so after many days he made a will, by which the younger son inherited all, to the exclusion of the elder. He is silent for a full minute; then he says,—.
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"Now, once for all, mother—" begins Nicholas, vehemently, but Geoffrey, with a gesture, silences him. "So glad you have come," says Lady Rodney, in a tone that belies her words, and in a sweet silvery voice that chills the heart of her listener. "We hardly thought we should see you so soon, the trains here are so unpunctual. I hope the carriage was in time?" "Sure they all admire me," says Miss Mona, with an exasperating smile, meant to wither. "Do you really like it?" asks she, plainly delighted..
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