And with the canker-worm of envy at her heart she wrote to Hester, who came immediately; and Hagar-when she heard her tell the story of her wrongs, how her husband's sister, indignant at his marriage with a sewing-girl, had removed from him the children, one a stepchild and one his own, and how of all his vast fortune there was not left for her a penny-experienced again the old bitterness of feeling, and murmured that fate should thus deal with her and hers.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
"Thinking of Hester always affects me so," she answered; and stretching her hands beseechingly towards him, she entreated him to say if Henry were not the stepchild.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
And very briefly Hagar explained to her what she knew, saying that Hester had told her of two young children, but she had forgotten entirely of their existence, and now that she was reminded of it she could not help fancying that Hester said the stepchild was a boy.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes