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Updated: June 8, 2025
That night anyone could have seen that she was, to Maurice, as nonexistent as any other elderly woman might have been. The Houghtons saw it, and when she went into the house Mary Houghton said, with distress: "She suffers!" Her husband nodded, and said he wished he was asleep. "Why," he demanded, "are women greater fools about this business than men?
I shall believe it if, with the spirit which becomes your birth, you do take your place at my side in unrelenting hostility to these Houghtons who have heaped insult upon us, the son by rash, headlong action which he would soon regret, and the father by insufferable insolence. But you shall judge for yourself." And he began, as Mr. Houghton had done, to repeat what had passed between them.
"Truth is just a matter of expediency with her. If he gets to be a liar, I'll boot him!" Maurice would think of these bad points until he got perfectly frantic! His sense of wanting advice was like an ache in his mind for there was no one who could advise him. Then, quite unexpectedly, advice came.... In the fall the Houghtons got back from Europe.
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