Original (English)

CHAPTER LIII THE HEIRESS PROVES THAT SHE INHERITS THE FEUD AND I GO DRIFTING My grandfather lived eight months after a scene that had afforded him high gratification at the heaviest cost a plain man can pay for his pleasures: it killed him. My father's supple nature helped him to survive it in apparently unimpeded health, so that the world might well suppose him unconquerable, as he meant that it should. But I, who was with him, knew, though he never talked of his wounds, they had