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"No more son-in-laws, thank you! One is about as many as I can tackle at a time. Edith has been at me again with a sheaf of bills " His eldest daughter's husband had recently failed in business, in consequence of which he himself was at present supporting a second establishment. He sighed, and reflected that it was a thankless task to rear a family.
Well, then, you must wait till you are of age, and then, if they torment you or put on you, 'Good-morning, says you; 'if we can't agree together, let's agree to part, says you." "What! leave my relations!!" "It is their own fault. Good friends before bad kindred! They only want to make a handle of you to get 'em rich son-in-laws. You pluck up a sperrit, Miss Lucy.
"An' I never will," said Mrs. Endey, grimly. "You've got a son-in-law, though, who's worth a whole townful of most son-in-laws. He was such a good son, too; jest worshipped his mother; couldn't bear her out o' his sight. He humored her high an' low. That's jest the way Sidonie does with me.
"I don't know what you got against Peter," she said; "I look to like him the best of my son-in-laws, so far." But that evening, as she sat with her husband beside the old reading-lamp which all the electricity that Sylvia had installed had not caused them to give up, her courage deserted her.
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