The man she married was poor, and a foreigner: two things he hated.

I never heard there was anything against him but his poverty." "How can he have heard about Mr.Langenau ?" said Sophie, musingly.
"I think Pauline must have told him," said Richard.
"Pauline?
never.

She is much too clever; she never told him.

You may be quite sure of _that_." "Pauline clever! Poor Pauline!" said Richard, with a short, sarcastic laugh, which had the effect of making Sophie angry.
"I am willing," she said, "that she should be as stupid and as good as you can wish--.

To whom does the money go ?" she added, as if she had not patience for the other subject.
"To a brother, with whom he had a quarrel, and whom he had not seen for over sixteen years." "Incredible!" "But there had been some sort of a reconciliation, at least an exchange of letters, within these three months past." "Ah!" "And it is in consequence of hearing from him, and being pressed by his lawyer for an immediate settlement of the estate, that I have come up to tell Pauline, and to prepare her for her changed prospects." "And what do you propose to advise ?" asked Sophie, with a chilling voice.
"Heaven knows, Sophie," answered her brother, with a heavy sigh.