: Invincible Minnie by Holding Elisabeth Sanxay - Young women Fiction; Sisters Fiction; Bigamy Fiction; Man-woman relationships Fiction; Mothers Fiction

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your--our trade. Really, Grandma, you ought to talk things over with Frankie and me."

The old lady was almost unable to speak.

"We only want to help," said Minnie, ingeniously including her sister.

"I've got on pretty well for seventy-five years without your assistance," said the old lady.

"Really, Grandma, I do think it would be better," Frankie interposed, "Minnie's a wonderful manager, and I'm sure she could help you ever so much."

"Two children! It's outrageous! I've managed...."

"Grandma," Minnie interrupted solemnly, "Mr. Simms spoke to me."

This was a telling blow; the old lady winced under it.

Frances was distressed by the idea of debts.

"Oh, dear!" she cried, "That's too bad! Do let's talk it over, Grandma dear, and see what can be done."

But Minnie met with an obstinacy inflexible as her own. Not one detail could they extract from the old lady. She took refuge in bitter reproach.

"I've worked for you both, day in and day out, for more than two years," she said, "and whatever money I've spent was my own. I'm not accountable to anyone for it." And she called them undutiful, ungrateful, unkind.

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