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IT was just as well that Cassius did not take the river road, for had he done so, he would have met Miss Priscilla at his own gate.
Miss Priscilla had allowed herself to act in a passion, and, she had not gone three miles from home before her mind misgave her. She had almost a mind to make a pretence of having left something and turn back. But she was not quite cool yet, and she did very much want to see Mr. Anderson, the lawyer in Graywich, about "that infamous will of Druey's"-so she called it in her own mind.