She said , when the word came , ` Ah , it is nothing but a rift in the clouds . We are up this week but we will be down the next . ' ` Well , Sophia Crawford , ' said I , -- for I will never give in to her , Mrs. Dr. dear -- ` God himself can not make two hills without a hollow between them , as I have heard it said , but that is no reason why we should not take the good of the hills when we are on them . ' But Cousin Sophia moaned on . ` Here is the Gallipolly expedition a failure and the Grand Duke Nicholas sent off , and everyone knows the Czar of Rooshia is a pro-German and the Allies have no ammunition and Bulgaria is going against us . And the end is not yet , for England and France must be punished for their deadly sins until they repent in sackcloth and ashes . ' ' I think myself , ' I said , ` that they will do their repenting in khaki and trench mud , and it seems to me that the Huns should have a few sins to repent of also . ' ` They are instruments in the hands of the Almighty , to purge the garner , ' said Sophia . And then I got mad , Mrs. Dr. dear , and told her I did not and never would believe that the Almighty ever took such dirty instruments in hand for any purpose whatever , and that I did not consider it decent for her to be using the words of Holy Writ as glibly as she was doing in ordinary conversation . She was not , I told her , a minister or even an elder . And for the time being I squelched her , Mrs. Dr. dear . Cousin Sophia has no spirit . She is very different from her niece , Mrs. Dean Crawford over-harbour . You know the Dean Crawfords had five boys and now the new baby is another boy . All the connection and especially Dean Crawford were much disappointed because their hearts had been set on a girl ; but Mrs. Dean just laughed and said , ` Everywhere I went this summer I saw the sign `` MEN WANTED '' staring me in the face . Do you think I could go and have a girl under such circumstances ? ' There is spirit for you , Mrs. Dr. dear . But Cousin Sophia would say the child was just so much more cannon fodder . '' Cousin Sophia had full range for her pessimism that gloomy autumn , and even Susan , incorrigible old optimist as she was , was hard put to it for cheer . When Bulgaria lined up with Germany Susan only remarked scornfully , `` One more nation anxious for a licking , '' but the Greek tangle worried her beyond her powers of philosophy to endure calmly .
`` Constantine XXXXX Greece has a German wife , Mrs. Dr. dear , and that fact squelches hope .
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