I 'm about the best friend she has on earth , I reckon , and she 's never uttered a word of complaint to me . Have you ever seen Dick Moore ? '' `` No . '' `` Well , I may as well begin at the beginning and tell you everything straight through , so you 'll understand it . As I said , Leslie 's father was Frank West . He was clever and shiftless -- just like a man . Oh , he had heaps of brains -- and much good they did him ! He started to go to college , and he went for two years , and then his health broke down . The Wests were all inclined to be consumptive . So Frank came home and started farming . He married Rose Elliott from over harbor . Rose was reckoned the beauty of Four Winds -- Leslie takes her looks from her mother , but she has ten times the spirit and go that Rose had , and a far better figure . Now you know , Anne , I always take the ground that us women ought to stand by each other . We 've got enough to endure at the hands of the men , the Lord knows , so I hold we had n't ought to clapper-claw one another , and it is n't often you 'll find me running down another woman . But I never had much use for Rose Elliott . She was spoiled to begin with , believe ME , and she was nothing but a lazy , selfish , whining creature . Frank was no hand to work , so they were poor as Job 's turkey . Poor ! They lived on potatoes and point , believe ME . They had two children -- Leslie and Kenneth .
XXXXX had her mother 's looks and her father 's brains , and something she did n't get from either of them .
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