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"I scarcely think so Please tell me"

"You'll be shocked," warned Kate

"Just so it isn't enough to set ain," said Mrs

Jardine

"We'll stop before that," laughed Kate "Then if you will have

it, I want of life by the time I am twenty a ht I want hi, with a few drops of the milk of

human kindness in his heart, and the same ambitions I have"

"And what ARE your ambitions?" asked Mrs Jardine

"To own, and to cultivate, and to bring to the highest state of

efficiency at least two hundred acres of land, with convenient and

attractive buildings and pedigreed stock, and to mother at least

twelve perfect physical and irls"

"Oh,back in her chair, her

ape "My dear, you don't MEAN that? You only said that

to shock me"

"But why should I wish to shock you? I sincerelycreature! I never heard a girl talk like that

before," said Mrs Jardine

"But you can't look straight ahead of you any direction you turn

without seeing a girl working for dear life to attract the man she

wants; if she can't secure him, some other man; and in lieu of

him, any man at all, in preference to none Life shows us woo; why be so