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The Secret Power

CHAPTER III
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There's a lot one need never learn.

The chief business of life nowadays is to have heaps of money and know how to spend it.

That's Morgana's way." Mr.Sam Gwent folded up his newspaper, flattened it into a neat parcel, and put it in his pocket.
"She has a great deal too much money"-- he said, "and-to my thinking--she does NOT know how to spend it,--not in the right womanly way.

She has gone off in the midst of many duties to society at a time when she should have stayed--" Miss Herbert opened her brown, rather insolent eyes wide at this and laughed.
"Does it matter ?" she asked.

"The old man left his pile to her 'absolutely and unconditionally'-- without any orders as to society duties.


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