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Vinnie learned only too soon why Jack had dreaded so much to have her enter the Betterson household; and, in a momentary depression of spirits, she asked herself whether, if she had known all she was undertaking, she would not have shrunk from it.
The sight of the sick ones, the mother enfeebled in mind as well as in body, Lord Betterson pompous