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“Yes,” she assented. “I suppose the children will have Eden Hazard Koszulka the whole property, now that the old lady is gone. I hope Mr. Harrington will be satisfied. He just married that girl for her money. That, I am sure, you will hear everybody say.”
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“Rhoda Colwell! Do you call her a beauty? I know some folks think she is — well, then, let us say as Rhoda Colwell, he would have made her any proposal sooner than that of his hand.”
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“No,” she returned, with an assumption of grimness, which was evidently meant for sarcasm, “not well. Every one knows the Pollards, but I never heard any one say they knew them well.”
“Didn’t Mr. Barrows?” I tremblingly inquired, anxious for her reply, yet fearful of connecting those two names.
“Not that I ever saw,” she returned, showing no special interest in the question, or in the fact that it was seemingly of some importance to me.
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