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putting his affairs into my hands gave me my real start six years ago—attracted to me other business which has since made me."
"And it would undoubtedly do very much to unmake you if now by my marriage my affairs were taken out of your hands," she asserted.
"Fortunately I am already so placed that the removal of the administration of your estate would scarcely cripple me. However, as I said, your father's friendship for me in the past made me. On account of him I made those attempts to check you after he was dead—to check you from things he himself, if he were alive, might have encouraged you in, but the certain results of which I could see. However, as you have more than once astutely observed, I made those attempts with-
