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You may be a learned lady in many things, Miss Cary, but you still have many things to learn. One is the infinite variety of liars there are in life and the many assortments in which lies may be labelled. "My grievance against Mrs. Deford isn't merely that she is an exaggerater, let us say, but she's such a lover of lucre, clean or not.
Again she hesitated, and in her face the color rose to the roots of her hair. "I don't suppose I ought to speak of it, but when any one says anything about Mary I get so hot I'm not " "What did Puss say?" Miss Gibbie sat upright and the fan in her hand was still. "She didn't say anything herself, but it was what Mrs. Deford said that " "What did Mrs. Deford say?"
Deford and Miss Honoria Brockenborough were talking about her the day they bought their spring hats, and they said she looked like a mystery to them, and they thought 'twas very strange a nice-looking white woman should be willing to come down here and be a servant." Mary Cary frowned quickly. "I wish they had said that to me. Hedwig is my maid, but she is my friend as well.
"That's who I mean, though I don't see what she's called Mrs. Walter Deford for, being as 'tis Mr. Walter Deford don't seem to enjoy her company any more than I do. If he's been in Yorkburg for eight years, nobody's heard of it. When she dies she oughtn't to be res'rected. In heaven there'll be saints, born plain. She couldn't associate with them.
Mittie Muncaster says she makes all of hers without a pattern, and they look it, but, as women go, they're above the average." She took up another slip of paper and glanced over it: "Mr. and Mrs. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Steele, Mr. James and Miss Puss Jenkins, Mr. Brickhouse and Mrs. Deford, Judge Lynn and myself.
"If ever there was a wild woman it's Laura Deford this minute. I've been with her all the morning, and she don't know salt from seaweed. She sent for John Maxwell and says he told her not to dare call Mary Cary's name in his presence, and that he never expects to marry any woman on earth." "I don't believe it!" Mrs. Moon sat upright. "Mrs. Deford must be insane." "She is."
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