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Florence thought proper to re the too moderately confessional word "three"

"If you don't want to be such a circus," the niece continued, reasoning perfectly, "I don't see what you always keep leadin' all of 'em on all the ti that, Florence?" her aunt demanded

"Aunt Fanny Patterson," Florence replied absently "F'r instance, Aunt Julia, I don't see what you want to go walking with Newland Sanders for, when you said yourself you wished he was dead, or soot to be so muck talk in the family and everywhere about his sayin' all that about the Bible when you hurt your thuhed profoundly "I wish 'all the family' would try to think about themselves for just a little while! There's entirely too little self-centredness a my relatives to suit me!"

"Why, it's only because you're related to oes on here," Florence protested "It's randfather's house, isn't it? Well, if you didn't live here, and if you wasn't hter, Aunt Julia, I wouldn't ever pay the very slightest attention to you! Anyway, I don'ton you--anyway not half as much as Herbert does Herbert thinks he always hass to act so critical, now his voice is changing"

"At your age," said Julia, "my mind was on my schoolbooks"

"Why, Aunt Julia!" Florence exclaimed in frank surprise "Grandpa says just the opposite froain, you alere this way, ever since you were four years old"

"What way?" asked her aunt

"Like you are now, Aunt Julia Grandpa says by the tiate, the way they leaned on it He says he hoped when you grew up he'd get a little peace in his own house, but he says it's worse, and never for oneday can he----"

"I know," Julia interrupted "He talks like a Christian Martyr and behaves like Nero I ht warn you to keep away from him, by the way, Florence He says that either you or Herbert was over here yesterday and used his spectacles to cut a azine with, and broke theot over it"