Two months ! Just fancy ! And Aunt Elizabeth wo n't abate one jot or tittle of the time I promised to stay with her . Harbour Hill is so frightfully dull , too . '' Then the talk drifted around to Edith 's affairs . She was engaged to a certain Sidney Keith , who was a professor in some college . `` I do n't expect to see much of Sidney this summer , '' said Edith . `` He 's writing another book . He is so terribly addicted to literature . '' `` How lovely , '' sighed Katherine , who had aspirations in that line herself . `` If only Ned were like him I should be perfectly happy . But Ned is so prosaic . He does n't care a rap for poetry , and he laughs when I enthuse . It makes him quite furious when I talk of taking up writing seriously . He says women writers are an abomination on the face of the earth . Did you ever hear anything so ridiculous ? '' `` He is very handsome , though , '' said Edith , with a glance at his photograph on Katherine 's dressing table . `` And that is what Sid is not . He is rather distinguished looking , but as plain as he can possibly be . '' Edith sighed .
She had a weakness XXXXX handsome men and thought it rather hard that fate should have allotted her so plain a lover .
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