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Updated: June 28, 2025
"My age is great, you know, and it is hardly probable that the good Lord will see fit to leave me much longer to enjoy the pleasures of this world. Now, what troubles me more than all else is that I am to die feeling that the family will pass utterly away. Is it possible that both Lila and yourself persist in your absurd and selfish determination to remain unmarried?"
We waited till one day in June when she asked us how we had managed to win Mary out of her shell. As I look back now I cannot possibly understand how we succeeded. It was the most discouraging, hopeless, hardest work I ever stuck to. Over and over again Berta and I would have given up if it had not been for Lila. She said that she dared not fail.
I do not know whether I want to attack a job like that till the children are grown up or not. You will have to give me time to study about it," she replied. "How can we bear to have Lila and Doyle knocked about as they are now and have been?" asked Austin with reproach in his voice.
The minute we escaped into the hall at the end of the recitation, the girls gathered around us and giggled and teased Lila till she almost broke down and cried before them all. There is a lot of difference between playing jokes on another person and appearing ridiculous yourself.
Cynthia turned and looked at her coldly. "You'd be more comfortable in that chair at the back," she suggested, and Lila sat down obediently in the little splitbottomed chair between a brown stone jar of butter and a basket filled with new-laid eggs.
Berta is the brightest girl in the class and she can argue about everything, and let the other person choose her side of the question first too. It was not until later that she reformed from that tendency to juggle with her intellect, as Prexie calls it. Well, Lila and I marched down the long dining-room, past the seniors and the faculty table, with our glasses held up in plain sight.
For half a minute Bea kept her head down while her chest heaved over a sigh of weary anticipation. Then she turned with an affectionate query: "What has happened now, Lila? Tell me, dear." Upon hearing about the affair of the essay, she expostulated consolingly, "Of course that is no disgrace. She is severe with all the girls, tears their essays into strips and empties the red ink over them.
There is a reference to this work in Burton's Vikram and the Vampire, where we read: "As regards the neutral state, that poet was not happy in his ideas who sang, 'Whene'er indifference appears, or scorn, Then, man, despair! then, hapless lover, mourn! for a man versed in the Lila Shastra can soon turn a woman's indifference into hate, which I have shown is as easily permuted to love."
And I thought she was my friend." Lila felt another sob come tearing up toward her throat and clenched her teeth in the struggle to choke it back. Blinded by a rush of fresh tears, she opened the top drawer of the bureau and felt for her brush with groping fingers. "She laughed right in my face. I I could have forgiven everything else. But but mother doesn't know that Bea in-insulted me.
"I don't care one bit what his grandfather was or whether he ever had any or not!" cried Lila, in an outburst of indignation; "and more than that, I don't care what mine was, either. I am going to marry him I am I am! Don't look at me like that, Cynthia. Do you want to spoil my whole life?"
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