`` But I ai n't going to associate with them on earth whatever I may have to do in heaven . THIS Methodist minister is n't married . The last one they had was , and his wife was the silliest , flightiest little thing I ever saw . I told her husband once that he should have waited till she was grown up before he married her . He said he wanted to have the training of her . Was n't that like a man ? '' `` It 's rather hard to decide just when people ARE grown up , '' laughed Anne . `` That 's a true word , dearie . Some are grown up when they 're born , and others ai n't grown up when they 're eighty , believe ME . That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up . She was as foolish when she was a hundred as when she was ten . '' `` Perhaps that was why she lived so long , '' suggested Anne . `` Maybe 't was . I 'd rather live fifty sensible years than a hundred foolish ones . '' `` But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible , '' pleaded Anne . Miss Cornelia disdained any skirmish of flippant epigram . `` Mrs. Roderick was a Milgrave , and the Milgraves never had much sense . Her nephew , Ebenezer Milgrave , used to be insane for years . He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she would n't bury him . I 'd a-done it . ''
Miss Cornelia looked so grimly determined that XXXXX could almost see her with a spade in her hand .
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