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"I know as little as you do what I would say It's a situation to make a man coin neords I suppose your faht about my family till I had Lucy's word Then I told reat respect for Independents, and though father sulked a bit at first, ht, and when mother has father quiet in their roos just as she wants him I suppose that's the ives Lucy will be just like that She's got a sharp little temper, too She'll let me have a bit of it, no doubt, now and then"

"Will you like that?"

"I wouldn't care a farthing for a ithout a bit of te with a woman of that kind My father would droop and pine if mother didn't spur him on now and then And he likes it Don't I know? I've seenher head, and rattling the china, and declaring she orn out withfun of us because we couldn'twithout strikes She had no strikes with her hands, she'd like to see her women stand up and talk to her about shorter hours, and so on; and father would look at h contentedly and say, 'Your , John Thoht pitch When Jonathan Arkroyd comes about that wool he sold us I'll be all ready for hiainst a sharp teirls are, 'roses set round with little wilful thorns,' eh?"

Unusual as this conversation was, its general tone was assu day Of course, Ruth was not at all surprised at the news Ethel brought her, for though the lovers had been individually sure they had betrayed their secret to no one, it had really been an open one to Ruth since the hour of theirShe was sincerely ardent in her praises of Tyrrel Rawdon, but--and there is always a but--she wondered if Ethel had "noticed what a quick temper he had"

"Oh, yes," answered Ethel, "I should not like him not to have a quick temper I expect my husband to stand up at a hts or opinions"