3683. I don’t want to say too much about this elderly aunt
of Harriett’s, because it is unkind to speak ill of the dead. Aside from her
numerous lawsuits filed against her relatives, and her legal proceedings
against her neighbors over land disputes, several people thought her likable
and were on speaking terms with her.
3684. Who those people who were I can’t say, having never
met any one of them, but she gave great joy to her many domestics who were fond
of walking behind her in silence dragging one foot along the floor in imitation
of her arthritic limp.
3685. Another thing her domestic servants loved about her
were the plentiful opportunities for loud prolonged laughter she gave them as
they took turns in the kitchen imitating her tendency to scream abuse at them
at the top of her lungs, with he lisp and her fake French accent.
3686.The news of the death of this venerated old aunt
reached Harriett in the country on the evening of Saturday, of the weekend of
Alexis’ detention at the military academy. The Minister was very surprised at his
wife’s profoundly disturbed reaction to the death of this aunt because, for all
intents and purposed it could have been considered a good thing as it would
probably involve the termination of her law suit against them over the
ownership of their country estates.
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