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Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

CHAPTER 15
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Lady Tallant continued: 'The truth is, Biddy has tired out the patience of her relatives and friends.

Molly and Chris Gaverick got the hump over Willoughby Maule--who would have done well enough if he had only had more money.
Old Eliza'-- so Lady Tallant irreverently styled the Dowager Countess of Gaverick--'told me herself that she was going to wash her hands of Biddy.

I shouldn't wonder if she didn't leave her a penny.

And, after all, it was her own fortune, and she has a horde of needy relatives.
She will consider that she has done her duty to the Gavericks if she lets Chris have the Castle.

When all's said and done, I don't see that it would be such a bad thing for Biddy to marry a rich Australian squatter.' 'Colin McKeith is not rich.' 'Oh, he will be.


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