My manly pride will not allow me to propose to the same girl more than twelve times . So the next time will be the last , Sue darling . '' `` Oh , '' I said , a trifle flatly . I forgot to resent his calling me darling . I wondered if things would n't be rather dull when Max gave up proposing to me . It was the only excitement I had . But of course it would be best -- and he could n't go on at it forever , so , by the way of gracefully dismissing the subject , I asked him what Miss Shirley was like . `` Very sweet girl , '' said Max . `` You know I always admired those gray-eyed girls with that splendid Titian hair . '' I am dark , with brown eyes . Just then I detested Max . I got up and said I was going to get some milk for Fatima . I found Ismay in a rage in the kitchen . She had been up in the garret , and a mouse had run across her foot . Mice always get on Ismay 's nerves . `` We need a cat badly enough , '' she fumed , `` but not a useless , pampered thing , like Fatima . That garret is literally swarming with mice . You 'll not catch me going up there again . '' Fatima did not prove such a nuisance as we had feared . Huldah Jane liked her , and Ismay , in spite of her declaration that she would have nothing to do with her , looked after her comfort scrupulously .
She even used XXXXX get up in the middle of the night and go out to see if Fatima was warm .
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