She offers now to clothe and educate her, with the
view of making the child her heir; and also to pay for Virgy's tuition, if
I will send them both to the convent where she was herself educated."
"Aunt Louise, you will not think of it surely?" cried Elsie, looking much
disturbed.
"And why not, pray?" asked Mrs. Conly, drawing herself up, and speaking
in a tone of mingled hauteur, pique and annoyance.
"You would not wish them to become Romanists?"
"No, of course not; but that need not follow."
"It is very apt to follow."
"Nonsense! I should exact a promise that their faith would not be
interfered with."
"But would that avail, since, 'No faith with heretics,' has been for
centuries the motto of the 'infallible, unchangeable,' Church of Rome?"
"I think you are inclined to see danger where there is none," returned the
aunt. "I would not for the world be as anxious and fussy about my children
as you are about yours. Besides, I think it quite right to let their
father's relatives do for them when they are both able and willing."
"But Aunt Louise----"
"There! don't let us talk any more about the matter to-day, if you
please," interrupted Mrs.
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