`` What was Mr. Pethick ? '' `` Well , he was a sort of hanger-on , Mrs. Dr. dear , but you could not exactly call him a beau . He did not really have any intentions . Twenty-one beaus -- and me that never had one ! But Barbara went through the woods and picked up the crooked stick after all . And yet they say her husband can make better baking powder biscuits than she can , and she always gets him to make them when company comes to tea . '' `` Which reminds ME that I have company coming to tea to-morrow and I must go home and set my bread , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` Mary said she could set it and no doubt she could . But while I live and move and have my being I set my own bread , believe me . '' `` How is Mary getting on ? '' asked Anne . `` I 've no fault to find with Mary , '' said Miss Cornelia rather gloomily . `` She 's getting some flesh on her bones and she 's clean and respectful -- though there 's more in her than I can fathom . She 's a sly puss . If you dug for a thousand years you could n't get to the bottom of that child 's mind , believe ME ! As for work , I never saw anything like her . She EATS it up . Mrs. Wiley may have been cruel to her , but folks need n't say she made Mary work . Mary 's a born worker . Sometimes I wonder which will wear out first -- her legs or her tongue .
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