Ruby's Reward — page 98: what you’re looking at

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very little about them, for my mother was always backwaid in speaking of them, and what little I do know J gathered fiom casual remarke which she dropped from time to time. I have thought of late there might be something connected with them which I ought to know, for the night that Mr Carpenter died he told me that he had something to say to me that my mother wished me to know when J became of age. He was stricken speech- less, however, before he could communicate it to me.” “Oh, how sorry Tam?” evied Ruby, im- pulsively ; ‘it might have been something very important.” 4*Tfit was simply to make known to me who my relatives are, and where 1 could find them, it would not have amounted to_ anything,’ returned Walter; ‘* for,” straightening himgelf haughtily, ‘ [would have epent my ite working upon the high- way befoic 1 would have sought aid from them,” Ruby elapped her bands softly in ap- plawse sc this demonstration of spirit: then she said, with a bttle laugh of triumph - “Some day, perhaps, they will be proud to «ch you, Mr Richardson, and £ believe that you aig as far above thei in_ true nohility as they have appeared to consider themselves above your lovely mother” “You are very goud to say so, Miss Gordon, and I thank you for the kind in- terest that you have manifeated in my simple story, But is it not strange that wealth and position, which are often at- tained only by the fluctuations of trace, should he so much more highly esteemed than real moral worth ?” comicbookss.com