59/66 I write this with the fellow-pen to yours, that you gave me when we went to Budmouth together. Good-bye!--Ever your own sister, CHARLOTTE.' Paula had first read this through silently, and now in reading it a second time aloud to Somerset her voice faltered, and she wept outright. 'She was genuine, if anybody ever was; and simple as she was true.' 'I am the more sorry,' Paula presently resumed, 'because of a little plan I had been thinking of with regard to her. You know that the pictures and curiosities of the castle are not included in the things I cannot touch, or impeach, or whatever it is. They are our own to do what we like with. |