I tell you if you took Emily into a brand new white marble palace she 'd be into the scrubbing as soon as she could get an old dress on . Well , she cleaned house till one o'clock that night and at four she was up and at it again . And she kept on that way ... far 's I could see she never stopped . It was scour and sweep and dust everlasting , except on Sundays , and then she was just longing for Monday to begin again . But it was her way of amusing herself and I could have reconciled myself to it if she 'd left me alone . But that she would n't do . She 'd set out to make me over but she had n't caught me young enough . I was n't allowed to come into the house unless I changed my boots for slippers at the door . I dars n't smoke a pipe for my life unless I went to the barn . And I did n't use good enough grammar . Emily 'd been a schoolteacher in her early life and she 'd never got over it . Then she hated to see me eating with my knife . Well , there it was , pick and nag everlasting . But I s ` pose , Anne , to be fair , I was cantankerous too . I did n't try to improve as I might have done ... I just got cranky and disagreeable when she found fault . I told her one day she had n't complained of my grammar when I proposed to her . It was n't an overly tactful thing to say . A woman would forgive a man for beating her sooner than for hinting she was too much pleased to get him . Well , we bickered along like that and it was n't exactly pleasant , but we might have got used to each other after a spell if it had n't been for Ginger . Ginger was the rock we split on at last .
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