No doubt you have abundance of spare time , but -- I -- have NOT . '' '' -- that your sister , Mrs. Wheeler , has had a letter from a cousin of yours , and she 's in Charlottetown . Mrs. Roberts , I think her name is -- '' `` Jane Roberts , '' broke in Miss Rosetta . `` Jane Ellis she was , before she was married . What was she writing to Charlotte about ? Not that I want to know , of course . I 'm not interested in Charlotte 's correspondence , goodness knows . But if Jane had anything in particular to write about she should have written to ME . I am the oldest . Charlotte had no business to get a letter from Jane Roberts without consulting me . It 's just like her underhanded ways . She got married the same way . Never said a word to me about it , but just sneaked off with that unprincipled Jacob Wheeler -- '' `` Mrs. Roberts is very ill . I understand , '' persisted Mr. Patterson , nobly resolved to do what he had come to do , `` dying , in fact , and -- '' `` Jane ill ! Jane dying ! '' exclaimed Miss Rosetta . `` Why , she was the healthiest girl I ever knew ! But then I 've never seen her , nor heard from her , since she got married fifteen years ago . I dare say her husband was a brute and neglected her , and she 's pined away by slow degrees . I 've no faith in husbands .
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