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THE next morning she and Brian held a serious consultation together. Brian had been bitterly disappointed that all Mrs. Daubeney's money would pass to her husband's nephew. Looking at his sister's sweet unruffled face, he felt a sudden impatience against her rise within him.
"She has no conception of what it will mean to us," he thought; "she does not know the value of money, for she has always had more than enough for her needs. I hate her complacent composure!"