Missus Reed's Promise to Me

My uncle had taken me when a parentless infant, to his home. In his last moments he required a promise of missus reed that she would rear and maintain me as one of her own children. But how could she really like an interloper, not of her race and unconnected with her after her husband's death by any tie? It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge, to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group. All said i was wicked, and perhaps i might be. So what thought

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