I think myself , ' I said , ` that they will do their repenting in khaki and trench mud , and it seems to me that the Huns should have a few sins to repent of also . ' ` They are instruments in the hands of the Almighty , to purge the garner , ' said Sophia . And then I got mad , Mrs. Dr. dear , and told her I did not and never would believe that the Almighty ever took such dirty instruments in hand for any purpose whatever , and that I did not consider it decent for her to be using the words of Holy Writ as glibly as she was doing in ordinary conversation . She was not , I told her , a minister or even an elder . And for the time being I squelched her , Mrs. Dr. dear . Cousin Sophia has no spirit . She is very different from her niece , Mrs. Dean Crawford over-harbour . You know the Dean Crawfords had five boys and now the new baby is another boy . All the connection and especially Dean Crawford were much disappointed because their hearts had been set on a girl ; but Mrs. Dean just laughed and said , ` Everywhere I went this summer I saw the sign `` MEN WANTED '' staring me in the face . Do you think I could go and have a girl under such circumstances ? ' There is spirit for you , Mrs. Dr. dear . But Cousin Sophia would say the child was just so much more cannon fodder . '' Cousin Sophia had full range for her pessimism that gloomy autumn , and even Susan , incorrigible old optimist as she was , was hard put to it for cheer . When Bulgaria lined up with Germany Susan only remarked scornfully , `` One more nation anxious for a licking , '' but the Greek tangle worried her beyond her powers of philosophy to endure calmly . `` Constantine of Greece has a German wife , Mrs. Dr. dear , and that fact squelches hope . To think that I should have lived to care what kind of a wife Constantine of Greece had ! The miserable creature is under his wife 's thumb and that is a bad place for any man to be . I am an old maid and an old maid has to be independent or she will be squashed out . But if I had been a married woman , Mrs. Dr. dear , I would have been meek and humble . It is my opinion that this Sophia of Greece is a minx . ''
XXXXX was furious when the news came that Venizelos had met with defeat .
Bulgaria Crawford Dean German Greece Susan independent optimist over-harbour repenting