21/26 It's my belief that you might have had it all for your own some day, if you'd done as you ought." "That's nonsense, Martha. She means to leave it all to the Burgesses. People don't always do what they say. If you'd managed rightly you might have it all;--and so you might now." "I'll tell you what, old girl; I shan't try. Live for the next twenty years under her apron strings, that I may have the chance at the end of it of cutting some poor devil out of his money! Do you know the meaning of making a score off your own bat, Martha ?" "No, I don't; and if it's anything you're like to do, I don't think I should be the better for learning,--by all accounts. |