She can attend to them . Jacob Wheeler was the most -- '' But Mr. Patterson had driven away . He felt that he had done his duty in the face of fearful odds , and he did not want to hear anything more about Jacob Wheeler . Rosetta Ellis and Charlotte Wheeler had not exchanged a word for ten years . Before that time they had been devoted to each other , living together in the little Ellis cottage on the White Sands road , as they had done ever since their parents ' death . The trouble began when Jacob Wheeler had commenced to pay attention to Charlotte , the younger and prettier of two women who had both ceased to be either very young or very pretty . Rosetta had been bitterly opposed to the match from the first . She vowed she had no use for Jacob Wheeler . There were not lacking malicious people to hint that this was because the aforesaid Jacob Wheeler had selected the wrong sister upon whom to bestow his affections . Be that as it might , Miss Rosetta certainly continued to render the course of Jacob Wheeler 's true love exceedingly rough and tumultuous . The end of it was that Charlotte had gone quietly away one morning and married Jacob Wheeler without Miss Rosetta 's knowing anything about it . Miss Rosetta had never forgiven her for it , and Charlotte had never forgiven the things Rosetta had said to her when she and Jacob returned to the Ellis cottage . Since then the sisters had been avowed and open foes , the only difference being that Miss Rosetta aired her grievances publicly , in season and out of season , while Charlotte was never heard to mention Rosetta 's name . Even the death of Jacob Wheeler , five years after the marriage , had not healed the breach . Miss Rosetta took out her curl-papers , packed her valise , and caught the late afternoon train for Charlottetown , as she had threatened . All the way there she sat rigidly upright in her seat and held imaginary dialogues with Charlotte in her mind , running something like this on her part : -- `` No , Charlotte Wheeler , you are not going to have Jane 's baby , and you 're very much mistaken if you think so . Oh , all right -- we 'll see ! You do n't know anything about babies , even if you are married . I do . Did n't I take William Ellis 's baby , when his wife died ?
Tell me XXXXX , Charlotte Wheeler !
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