Besides , what business had he to call our cat a varmint ? ` It may be a varmint or it may not , ' I said , ` but it knows the difference between a Canadian and a Hun . ' You would have thought , would you not , Mrs. Dr. dear , that a hint like that would have been enough for him ! But it went no deeper than his skin . I saw him settling back quite comfortable , as if for a good talk , and thought I , ` If there is anything coming it may as well come soon and be done with , for with all these rags to dye before supper I have no time to waste in flirting , ' so I spoke right out . ` If you have anything particular to discuss with me , Mr. Pryor , I would feel obliged if you would mention it without loss of time , because I am very busy this afternoon . ' He fairly beamed at me out of that circle of red whisker , and said , ` You are a business-like woman and I agree with you . There is no use in wasting time beating around the bush . I came up here today to ask you to marry me . ' So there it was , Mrs. Dr. dear . I had a proposal at last , after waiting sixty-four years for one . `` I just glared at that presumptuous creature and I said , ' I would not marry you if you were the last man on earth , Josiah Pryor . So there you have my answer and you can take it away forthwith . ' You never saw a man so taken aback as he was , Mrs. Dr. dear . He was so flabbergasted that he just blurted out the truth . ` Why , I thought you 'd be only too glad to get a chance to be married , ' he said . That was when I lost my head , Mrs. Dr. dear . Do you think I had a good excuse , when a Hun and a pacifist made such an insulting remark to me ? ` Go , ' I thundered , and I just caught up that iron pot . I could see that he thought I had suddenly gone insane , and I suppose he considered an iron pot full of boiling dye was a dangerous weapon in the hands of a lunatic .
At any rate he went , and stood not upon the order XXXXX his going , as you saw for yourself .
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