I would understand . But there are times -- not always , but now and again -- when I almost have to believe that Leslie does n't -- does n't like me . Sometimes I surprise a look in her eyes that seems to show resentment and dislike -- it goes so quickly -- but I 've seen it , I 'm sure of that . And it hurts me , Captain Jim . I 'm not used to being disliked -- and I 've tried so hard to win Leslie 's friendship . '' `` You have won it , Mistress Blythe . Do n't you go cherishing any foolish notion that Leslie do n't like you . If she did n't she would n't have anything to do with you , much less chumming with you as she does . I know Leslie Moore too well not to be sure of that . '' `` The first time I ever saw her , driving her geese down the hill on the day I came to Four Winds , she looked at me with the same expression , '' persisted Anne . `` I felt it , even in the midst of my admiration of her beauty . She looked at me resentfully -- she did , indeed , Captain Jim . '' `` The resentment must have been about something else , Mistress Blythe , and you jest come in for a share of it because you happened past . Leslie DOES take sullen spells now and again , poor girl . I ca n't blame her , when I know what she has to put up with . I do n't know why it 's permitted . The doctor and I have talked a lot abut the origin of evil , but we have n't quite found out all about it yet . There 's a vast of onunderstandable things in life , ai n't there , Mistress Blythe ? Sometimes things seem to work out real proper-like , same as with you and the doctor . And then again they all seem to go catawampus .
There 's Leslie , so clever and beautiful you 'd think she was meant for a queen , and instead she 's cooped up over there , robbed of almost everything a woman 'd value , with no prospect except waiting on Dick XXXXX all her life .
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