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Arabella beamed at her father, then turned her gaze toward Mr. Conolly. Instead of looking shocked, he merely nodded, smiling.
“I will ensure that it is so,” he said.
“I must say,” Arabella said. “I’m very impressed at how you’re taking all of this.”
“It’s not my job to impose my opinions on the requests of my clients,” he replied. “However, I see no reason why a beloved daughter shouldn’t receive the things which her father wishes to give her.” He cleared his throat. “The only true problem that we may encounter is the entail itself. They are difficult to break; however, it has also been done.”
“They have, have they?” her father asked.
“Yes. The wife’s fortune has been successfully released from the estate,” Mr. Conolly explained. “The title and the county seat were not.”
Arabella smiled at him. Secretly, she was planning never to marry. She wanted to live like a gentleman—under her own power. She wanted never to have to submit to a husband.
“I think you’ve found a very sound advocate in Mr. Conolly, Papa,” she said, smiling at her father. She loved him, as any daughter who had been raised by a kind and generous father would. She just couldn’t tell him her plans. He would never understand the full weight of how her upbringing had formed her mind and her heart.
