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Sidney could not remember when her Aunt Harriet had not sat at the table

It was one of her earliest disillusionments to learn that Aunt Harriet

lived with them, not because she wished to, but because Sidney's father had

borrowed her shteen years

she had "boarded it out" Sidney had been born and grown to girlhood; the

drearave, with valuable patents lost for lack

of one with his faith in himself destroyed, but with

his faith in the world undihter

without a dollar of life insurance

Harriet Kennedy had voiced her own view of the hbors:-"He left no insurance Why should he bother? He left me"

To the little , her sister, she had been no less bitter, and more

explicit

"It looks toI had

George had bought me, body and soul, for the rest of my natural life I'll

stay now until Sidney is able to take hold Then I' to live my own

life It will be a little late, but the Kennedys live a long ti had seee Sidney was