He seems to resent it . '' `` HE ought to speak , '' cried Mrs. George warmly . `` Even if she were in the wrong ten times over , he ought to overlook it and speak first . '' `` But he wo n't . And she wo n't . You never saw two such determined mortals . They get it from their grandfather on the mother 's side -- old Absalom Gordon . There is no such stubbornness on the Penhallow side . His obstinacy was a proverb , my dear -- actually a proverb . What ever he said , he would stick to if the skies fell . He was a terrible old man to swear , too , '' added Mrs. Frederick , dropping into irrelevant reminiscence . `` He spent a long while in a mining camp in his younger days and he never got over it -- the habit of swearing , I mean . It would have made your blood run cold , my dear , to have heard him go on at times . And yet he was a real good old man every other way . He could n't help it someway . He tried to , but he used to say that profanity came as natural to him as breathing . It used to mortify his family terribly . Fortunately , none of them took after him in that respect . But he 's dead -- and one should n't speak ill of the dead . I must go and get Mattie Penhallow to do my hair .
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