Leslie shook her head . `` No , '' she said dully . `` There is n't any hope . Dick will never be better -- and even if his memory were to come back -- oh , Anne , it would be worse , even worse , than it is now . This is something you ca n't understand , you happy bride . Anne , did Miss Cornelia ever tell you how I came to marry Dick ? '' `` Yes . '' `` I 'm glad -- I wanted you to know -- but I could n't bring myself to talk of it if you had n't known . Anne , it seems to me that ever since I was twelve years old life has been bitter . Before that I had a happy childhood . We were very poor -- but we did n't mind . Father was so splendid -- so clever and loving and sympathetic . We were chums as far back as I can remember . And mother was so sweet . She was very , very beautiful . I look like her , but I am not so beautiful as she was . '' `` Miss Cornelia says you are far more beautiful . '' `` She is mistaken -- or prejudiced . I think my figure IS better -- mother was slight and bent by hard work -- but she had the face of an angel . I used just to look up at her in worship .
We all worshipped her , -- father and Kenneth and I. '' Anne remembered that Miss Cornelia had given her a very different impression of XXXXX 's mother .
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