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Isabel's Desire For Independence: Summary

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hains opens with a funeral, which pretty much tells us up front that it 's going to be a pretty bleak story. Isabel, our heroine, and her younger sister, Ruth, are attending the burial of their owner, Miss Mary Finch. The occasion presents a great deal of hope for Isabel and Ruth, as Miss Finch planned to free the girls in her will. When Isabel confronts Miss Finch 's brother about this, though, he basically thinks she 's making it up. To make matters worse, her lawyer is stuck in Boston, where a major uprising has just taken place over the British colonies ' desire for independence. As a result, Isabel 's hopes turn to dust. We 'd like to say that somebody texts the lawyer and he makes an emergency trip to Rhode Island to sort stuff out, but

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