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She can set there and do her mendin' when she don't feel like comin' into the cabin. The cabin well, I wish you could see that cabin, Maria! The first mate is a fine-appearing man, too. Some of the sailors looked pretty rough; but I guess it was as much their clothes as anything; and I d'know as Lyddy'd have a great deal to do with them, any way."
"I guess the boys at the school down to the Mill Village found out she had authority enough," said Miss Maria, promptly materializing the idea. "Precisely," said Mr. Goodlow. "That's what I told father, in the first place," said Miss Maria. "I guess Lyddy'd know how to conduct herself wherever she was, just the words I used." "I don't deny it, Maria, I don't deny it," shrilly piped the old man.
I s'pose 'twas a change for Josh, anyway, to be with a woman like 'Mandy, that never said her soul's her own, for Lyddy'd al'ays had a quick way with her; but, land! you can't tell about men, what changes 'em or what don't. If you're tied to one, you've jest got to bear with him, an' be thankful if he don't run some kind of a rig an' make you town-talk."
"I guess Lyddy'd know how to conduct herself wherever she was; she's a born lady, if ever there was one. But what I think is " Miss Maria paused, and did not say what she thought; but it was evidently not the social aspect of the matter which was uppermost in her mind. In fact, she had never been at all afraid of men, whom she regarded as a more inefficient and feebler-minded kind of women.
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