Some of my beaux certainly were n't . I used to laugh at them scandalous , poor boys . There was Jim Elwood -- he was always in a sort of day-dream -- never seemed to sense what was going on . He did n't wake up to the fact that I 'd said ` no ' till a year after I 'd said it . When he did get married his wife fell out of the sleigh one night when they were driving home from church and he never missed her . Then there was Dan Winston . He knew too much . He knew everything in this world and most of what is in the next . He could give you an answer to any question , even if you asked him when the Judgment Day was to be . Milton Edwards was real nice and I liked him but I did n't marry him . For one thing , he took a week to get a joke through his head , and for another he never asked me . Horatio Reeve was the most interesting beau I ever had . But when he told a story he dressed it up so that you could n't see it for frills . I never could decide whether he was lying or just letting his imagination run loose . '' `` And what about the others , Aunty ? '' `` Go away and unpack , '' said Aunt Jamesina , waving Joseph at them by mistake for a needle . `` The others were too nice to make fun of . I shall respect their memory . There 's a box of flowers in your room , Anne . They came about an hour ago . ''
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