`` No . I know what I can do . I can write pretty , fanciful little sketches that children love and editors send welcome cheques for . But I can do nothing big . My only chance for earthly immortality is a corner in your Memoirs . '' Charlotta the Fourth had discarded the blue bows but her freckles were not noticeably less . `` I never did think I 'd come down to marrying a Yankee , Miss Shirley , ma'am , '' she said . `` But you never know what 's before you , and it is n't his fault . He was born that way . '' `` You 're a Yankee yourself , Charlotta , since you 've married one . '' `` Miss Shirley , ma'am , I 'm NOT ! And I would n't be if I was to marry a dozen Yankees ! Tom 's kind of nice . And besides , I thought I 'd better not be too hard to please , for I might n't get another chance . Tom do n't drink and he do n't growl because he has to work between meals , and when all 's said and done I 'm satisfied , Miss Shirley , ma'am . '' `` Does he call you Leonora ? '' asked Anne . `` Goodness , no , Miss Shirley , ma'am . I would n't know who he meant if he did . Of course , when we got married he had to say , ' I take thee , Leonora , ' and I declare to you , Miss Shirley , ma'am , I 've had the most dreadful feeling ever since that it was n't me he was talking to and I have n't been rightly married at all .
And so you 're going to be married yourself , Miss XXXXX , ma'am ?
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