she said , with a hearty laugh at the recollection . `` David Hartley was here to tea last night , and asked me to marry him again . There 's a persistent man for you . I ca n't brag of ever having had many beaux , but I 've certainly had my fair share of proposals . '' Mrs. Tom did not laugh . Her thin little face , with its faded prettiness , looked as if she never laughed . `` Why wo n't you marry him ? '' she said fretfully . `` Why should I ? '' retorted Josephine . `` Tell me that , Ida Sentner . '' `` Because it is high time you were married , '' said Mrs. Tom decisively . `` I do n't believe in women living single . And I do n't see what better you can do than take David Hartley . '' Josephine looked at her sister with the interested expression of a person who is trying to understand some mental attitude in another which is a standing puzzle to her . Ida 's evident wish to see her married always amused Josephine . Ida had married very young and for fifteen years her life had been one of drudgery and ill-health . Tom Sentner was a lazy , shiftless fellow . He neglected his family and was drunk half his time . Meadowby people said that he beat his wife when `` on the spree , '' but Josephine did not believe that , because she did not think that Ida could keep from telling her if it were so .
Ida Sentner was not given XXXXX bearing her trials in silence .
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