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If ever there was a life that illustrated the oft-quoted phrase "poor humanity," it was that of Sternhold Baskette. But this is not the place to moralise -- we must hasten on. The orchestra has nearly finished the overture; the play will soon begin.
Lucia had now no longer any reason for restraint. Her boy was safe -- safe as the laws of a great country could make him -- certain to inherit a property which by the time he was forty would be of value surpassing calculation. She rejoiced in it, gloried in it. To her it was more welcome than the confirmed guardianship of Aurelian would have been, because it left her free.