He was a very high-strung , sensitive fellow . Well , we parted in a temper on both sides . But I thought it would all come right ; and it would have if Stephen had n't come back too soon . Anne , my dear , I 'm sorry to say '' ... Miss Lavendar dropped her voice as if she were about to confess a predilection for murdering people , `` that I am a dreadfully sulky person . Oh , you need n't smile , ... it 's only too true . I DO sulk ; and Stephen came back before I had finished sulking . I would n't listen to him and I would n't forgive him ; and so he went away for good . He was too proud to come again . And then I sulked because he did n't come . I might have sent for him perhaps , but I could n't humble myself to do that . I was just as proud as he was ... pride and sulkiness make a very bad combination , Anne . But I could never care for anybody else and I did n't want to . I knew I would rather be an old maid for a thousand years than marry anybody who was n't Stephen Irving . Well , it all seems like a dream now , of course . How sympathetic you look , Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look . But do n't overdo it . I 'm really a very happy , contented little person in spite of my broken heart . My heart did break , if ever a heart did , when I realized that Stephen Irving was not coming back . But , Anne , a broken heart in real life is n't half as dreadful as it is in books . It 's a good deal like a bad tooth ... though you wo n't think THAT a very romantic simile .
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