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Book, page 191 / 271 for her own good, since she is of the kind who would never be happy leading a simple life, but should be married. But alas for all my hopes. She said, on the day before we left, while packing her jewel box: "You might just as well give up trying to get rid of me, Barbara. Because I do not intend to marry any one." "Very well, Leila," I said, in a cold tone. "Of course it matters not to me, because I can be kept in school untill I am thirty, and never come out or have a good time, and no one will care. But when you are an old woman and have not employed your natural function of having children to suport you in Age, don't say I did not warn you." "Oh, you'll come out all right," she said, in a brutal manner. "You'll come out like a sky rocket. You'd be as impossable to supress as a boil." Carter Brooks came around that afternoon and we played marbels in the drawing room with moth balls, as the rug was up. It was while sitting on the floor eating some candy he had brought that I told him that there was no use hanging around, as Leila was not going to marry. He took it bravely, and said that he saw nothing to do but to wait for some of the younger crowd to grow up, as the older ones had all refused him. "By the way," he said. "I thought I saw you running a car the other day. You were chasing a fox terier when I saw you, but I beleive the dog escaped." I looked at him and I saw that, although smiling, he was one who could be trusted, even to the Grave. "Carter," I said. "It was I, although when you saw me I know not, as dogs are always getting in the way." I then told him about the pony cart, and the Allowence, and saving car fare. Also that I felt that I should have some pleasure, even
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