After death duties had been paid and the demands of creditors satisfied, his child was left with an income of one hundred pounds a year, and no property.įlora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. Her father had always been spoken of as a wealthy man, but on his death his executors were disconcerted to find him a poor one. The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged: and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living. See all of librarian Nancy Pearl's "under-the-radar" picks.
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