Millicent 's hair always looks to me as if she had swept it up with a broom . But the men do not seem to mind that . '' `` They see only her pretty , piquant , mocking , little face , Susan . '' `` That may very well be , Mrs. Dr. dear . The Good Book says that favour is deceitful and beauty is vain , but I should not have minded finding that out for myself , if it had been so ordained . I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels , but what good will it do us then ? Speaking of gossip , however , they do say that poor Mrs. Harrison Miller over harbour tried to hang herself last week . '' `` Oh , Susan ! '' `` Calm yourself , Mrs. Dr. dear . She did not succeed . But I really do not blame her for trying , for her husband is a terrible man . But she was very foolish to think of hanging herself and leaving the way clear for him to marry some other woman . If I had been in her shoes , Mrs. Dr. dear , I would have gone to work to worry him so that he would try to hang himself instead of me . Not that I hold with people hanging themselves under any circumstances , Mrs. Dr. dear . '' `` What is the matter with Harrison Miller , anyway ? '' said Anne impatiently . `` He is always driving some one to extremes . '' `` Well , some people call it religion and some call it cussedness , begging your pardon , Mrs. Dr. dear , for using such a word . It seems they can not make out which it is in Harrison 's case . There are days when he growls at everybody because he thinks he is fore-ordained to eternal punishment .
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