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all the worst of the family came together.

  In you, Sophia, I fully believe that all that

  is bravest and best in the Leonides family

  has been handed down to you. Your grandfather

  thought highly of you and he seems

  to have been a man who was usually right.

  Hold up your head, my darling. The future

  is ours."

  "I will, Charles. I love you and I'll marry

  you and make you happy." She looked

  down at the notebook. "Poor Josephine."

  "Poor Josephine," I said.

  "What's the truth of it, Charles?" said my

  father.

  I never lie to the Old Man.

  "It wasn't Edith de Haviland, sir," I

  said. "It was Josephine."

  My father nodded his head gently.

  "Yes," he said. "I've thought so for some

  time. Poor child . . ."

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