His Other Wife: A Novel — page 251: what you’re looking at

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AN UNFUST STEWARD. 243 found it an intolerable bore and a most exquisite vexation to be burdened with the idclatrous devotion of an ugly, unattractive, and passionate woman, entitled to his con- stant society and tender consideration. He was not slow in deciding that at every hazard he must rid himself of this incubus, if he was to realize any satisfaction from her fortune. We have seen with what success he achieved this fell purpose. CHAPTER XXVI. AN UNJUST STEWARD. Mathew Croft had been employed by Leda’s father to conduct several important cases of litigation, and such confidence had the weak and credulous Colonel Morgan reposed in the ability and probity of the then nmising lawyer, that he had not only caused Mr. Croft to draw his will, but, at his death, appointed the attorney executor of the document and supervisor in general over his estates and the interests of his wife and young daughter, who was at that time a mere school-girl. Mrs. Morgan was one of those dependent aad fragile natures that gladly repose on the first available support; and while she knew very little of Mathew Croft, and cared Comicbooks: (E(0)