Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 432
wn to the eldest son of the family.He said, moreover, that it ever should have remaineda ring ; that t was a crime it should have been changed.But t was my mothers whim that it should be taken from the ring, set round with diamonds, and made intoan ornament for her neck. He said that once, whenthey… … HE GAZED HAKD AT ME AS I STOOD ON THE LAWN. was filled with wrath at her and never forgave her.Had I been a boy, he says, he would have had the stonereset in a ring. But since the only heir to it is a girl,he has allowed it to remain thus, and once scornfullytold me that t was as useless now as I…
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