"
"Yes. Jasper has a schooner of his own now, did you know it?"
"No; has he? That's fine!"
"Yes; Jasper always was forehanded, and he has laid by quite a snug
little sum; then of course his father helps him; you never hear from
him?"
"No; that is, he did write a postscript in one of his mother's letters."
"Did you answer it?"
"Not directly. I expressed my thanks, etc., to Mrs. Norris when I next
wrote."
Sara had resumed her chair and sewing; but at this she laid it in her
lap, and looked curiously at her old friend, wondering what categorical
fiend possessed her this morning. Miss Prue knitted two or three rounds
in silence, then remarked, with elaborate carelessness,--
"You and Jasper have always been good friends?"
As she ended with the rising inflection, Sara answered,--
"Oh, yes, always," and picked up her sewing.
"I've about made up my mind," added Miss Prue, lowering her voice to a
more confidential tone, "to make Jasper my heir. His mother has been for
years my nearest of kin, and Jasper's a fine lad, honest and
trustworthy. But I have some notions about woman's rights in property
matters; and if I knew just the girl he would marry, I should leave it
to both, share and share alike. I know whom he _wants_ to marry,"
she finished decisively.
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