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Brother Or No Brother; Or, Which Was The Wiser ?
" What may this inclose ? " exclaimed Rupert . " Marvellous pains seem to have been taken to secure the contents from injury ! What may be within ? Eh , Phil ! Valuables ?" " Yes ! in one sense as having been worn by HIM , " was the reply slowlivenand not without emotion ; "I
imay g , gine the packet to contain his Masonic insignia . " " Oh ! Ah ! That was one of the governor ' s infatuations —one of his infatuations to the very last . Masonic , Eh ? So ! I imagined that , sooner or later , we should stumble upon some memento of this kind . What is to be done with it V
Philip pointed in silence to the inscription . " All stuff and nonsense , " remarked the elder brother , angrily ; " I ask again , how shall we dispose of it ?" The younger man read deliberately the address ; but trusted himself with no comment . " Pooh i Rank absurdity ! " cried the elder son . " We ' re
not going to keep it ! That , like other matters , must be disposed of . " " Disposed of I " exclaimed Philip , " with that memorandum endorsed on it , and written by himself the very day before he died !" " No heroicsPhil—no heroics ! This is a money-getting
, age , which has scant sympathy with them . I ask once more , who will be the buyer ?" " I ! " cried the younger , indignantly ; "I , at any estimate that may be formed . " " Ah ! well ! that ' s business-like , and I understand you . " " Would that I could return the compliment , " rejoined
Philip , sadly . " My dear brother , are the dead at once to be forgotten , and their wishes— " " Oh ! if you are about to moralize , I wish you good morning . I don ' t affect homilies at any time ; but , least of all when delivered by a layman ! Adieu !" And , whistling his dog to his side , Rupert quitted the apartment .
IV . Philip mused on in silence . Memory recalled to him many a touching trait of the departed . He thought of his father ' s unvarying affection and consideration for both his children , —of the costly education he had bestowed on Rupert , — of the extent to which all his predilections
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Brother Or No Brother; Or, Which Was The Wiser ?
" What may this inclose ? " exclaimed Rupert . " Marvellous pains seem to have been taken to secure the contents from injury ! What may be within ? Eh , Phil ! Valuables ?" " Yes ! in one sense as having been worn by HIM , " was the reply slowlivenand not without emotion ; "I
imay g , gine the packet to contain his Masonic insignia . " " Oh ! Ah ! That was one of the governor ' s infatuations —one of his infatuations to the very last . Masonic , Eh ? So ! I imagined that , sooner or later , we should stumble upon some memento of this kind . What is to be done with it V
Philip pointed in silence to the inscription . " All stuff and nonsense , " remarked the elder brother , angrily ; " I ask again , how shall we dispose of it ?" The younger man read deliberately the address ; but trusted himself with no comment . " Pooh i Rank absurdity ! " cried the elder son . " We ' re
not going to keep it ! That , like other matters , must be disposed of . " " Disposed of I " exclaimed Philip , " with that memorandum endorsed on it , and written by himself the very day before he died !" " No heroicsPhil—no heroics ! This is a money-getting
, age , which has scant sympathy with them . I ask once more , who will be the buyer ?" " I ! " cried the younger , indignantly ; "I , at any estimate that may be formed . " " Ah ! well ! that ' s business-like , and I understand you . " " Would that I could return the compliment , " rejoined
Philip , sadly . " My dear brother , are the dead at once to be forgotten , and their wishes— " " Oh ! if you are about to moralize , I wish you good morning . I don ' t affect homilies at any time ; but , least of all when delivered by a layman ! Adieu !" And , whistling his dog to his side , Rupert quitted the apartment .
IV . Philip mused on in silence . Memory recalled to him many a touching trait of the departed . He thought of his father ' s unvarying affection and consideration for both his children , —of the costly education he had bestowed on Rupert , — of the extent to which all his predilections