15/24 they were to be brought up in ignorance of their name--of the very existence of their mother. The 'friend,' doubtless a fellow Quaker--had agreed to this on my mother's deathbed." "Hm! 'tis passing strange, and passing sad," said the attorney, with real sympathy now, for there was a pathetic note of acute sorrow in Mistress de Chavasse's voice, "but at the time ... and with money and influence ... |