And yet ... I thought of her as I had seen her , standing under the pines , and something cold and painful laid its hand on my heart . My premonitions as to lovers proved correct . Glenby was soon infested with them . Heaven knows where they all came from . I had not supposed there was a quarter as many young men in the whole county ; but there they were . Sara was in the seventh heaven of delight . Was not Betty at last a belle ? As for the proposals ... well , Betty never counted her scalps in public ; but every once in a while a visiting youth dropped out and was seen no more at Glenby . One could guess what that meant . Betty apparently enjoyed all this . I grieve to say that she was a bit of a coquette . I tried to cure her of this serious defect , but for once I found that I had undertaken something I could not accomplish . In vain I lectured , Betty only laughed ; in vain I gravely rebuked , Betty only flirted more vivaciously than before . Men might come and men might go , but Betty went on forever . I endured this sort of thing for a year and then I decided that it was time to interfere seriously . I must find a husband for Betty ... my fatherly duty would not be fulfilled until I had ... nor , indeed , my duty to society . She was not a safe person to have running at large . None of the men who haunted Glenby was good enough for her . I decided that my nephew , Frank , would do very well . He was a capital young fellow , handsome , clean-souled , and whole-hearted .
From a worldly point XXXXX view he was what Sara would have termed an excellent match ; he had money , social standing and a rising reputation as a clever young lawyer .
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