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Well, give my love to Elizabeth, Mrs. Maitland said:
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She gave a grunt of a laugh, and took herself off, pausing at the front door to call back,
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Don't forget my good advice, you people!
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I'd like to choke her! he said to himself. He felt the desire to choke Mrs. Maitland several times that evening as he sat in his library pretending to read his newspaper.
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She ought to be ashamed of herself! Mrs. Richie will think I have been--heaven knows what she will think!
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But if she hankers after him --Mrs. Maitland's face twinged with annoyance;
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But she must make sure about the
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It would not be difficult to make sure. In these silent years together, the strong nature had drawn the weak nature to it, as a magnet draws a speck of iron. Nannie, timid to the point of awe, never daring even in her thoughts to criticize the powerful personality that dominated her daily life, nestled against it, so to speak, with perfect content. Sarah Maitland's esthetic deficiencies which separated her so tragically from her son, did not alienate Nannie. The fact that her stepmother was rich, and yet lived in a poverty-stricken locality; that the inconvenience of the old house amounted to squalor; that they were almost completely isolated from people of their own class;--none of these things disturbed Nannie. They were merely
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Mamma's ways, that was all there was to say about them. She was not confidential with Mrs. Maitland, because she had nothing to confide. But if her stepmother had ever asked any personal question, she would have been incapable of not replying. Mrs. Maitland knew that, and proposed to satisfy herself as to the
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But she looks down in the mouth,