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Aug 29, 2006 20:51

Mother, I can never feel the same to Valancy again.
His cheeks were red andhis nose ought to have been, but wasnt.
Nobody ever had a good word to say of Barney Snaith. I never heard a young woman
talk such stuff in my life as she just did.
He talked all his life exactly as Valancy did today, retorted Uncle Benjamin.
Aunt Wellington thought it would be to travel in Europe.
There are such things as brain storms nowadays, arent there? This is bringing on
my neuritis again, said Cousin Gladys, putting her hand to her head. Is that a
nice thing to say to your mother?
It was so easy to defy once you got started.
I noticed something strange about her the minute she came in today. Valancy was
not asking quarter or giving it. Valancy looked at it over her thin left
shoulder.
Named Mary but called by her husbands name to distinguish her from Great-aunt
Mary. What she wants is a generous dose of spank-weed and Id like to be the one
to administer it. This is bringing on my neuritis again, said Cousin
Gladys,putting her hand to her head. Would you rather sweep a dirty room than a
clean one?
If anybody wanted her to go somewhere she didnt want to go she had neuritis in
her legs. She let herself go with a wild, inner-exultation, as Uncle Herbert
carved the turkey. Aunt Isabel concluded that it was up to her to suppress
Valancy.
Even Valancy, with all her emancipation, did not like it.
After they left school their paths diverged and she had seen nothing of her.
She had, it was conceded, a biting tongue. How do YOU know his eyebrows so well,
Doss? I should never have dreamed it of Doss, said Uncle Herbert.
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