[The Shoulders of Atlas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shoulders of Atlas CHAPTER XV 22/58
Rose gasped.
"Why, Aunt Sylvia!" said she. "All these things belonged to your aunt Abrahama, and now they belong to you," said Sylvia, in a triumphant tone. "Why, but these are perfectly beautiful things!" "Yes; I don't believe anybody in East Westland ever knew she had them.
I don't believe she could have worn them, even when she was a girl, or I should have heard of them.
I found them all in her bureau drawer.
She didn't even keep them under lock and key; but then she never went out anywhere, and if nobody even knew she had them, they were safe enough.
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