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The sharp eyes of Mrs Holt detected the smile She probably

would have noticed it, if Kate had

"Why do you s tone

"Oh, I was feeling so at home," answered Kate, suavely "Father

and the boys hold exactly those opinions and practise them in

precisely the same way; only if I were to think about it at all, I

should think that a in exercising politeness with every woman he

meets I believe a doctor depends on women to be most of his

patients, and woe Holt

"Miss Bates is exactly right," said his mother "Ain't I been

tellin' you the whole endurin' tiet a call

unless you practised manners as well as rily "But if you think all of a

sudden that manners are so essential, why didn't you hammer some

into me when you had the whip hand and could do what you pleased?

You didn't find any fault with my manners, then"

"How of all the world was I to know that you'd grow up and go in

for doctorin'? I s'pos'd then you'd take the farm an' run it like

your pa did, stead of forcin' me to sell it off by inches to live,