I used to think it fine enough in the Carrolls ' time , but it was n't as grand as this . And that reminds me , I have something to tell you , but I do n't want you to get as excited as you did the last time I mentioned her name . You remember the last day I was to see you we were talking of Lou Carroll ? Well , next day I was downtown in a store , and who should sail in but Mrs. Joel Kent , from Oriental . You know Mrs. Joel -- Sarah Chapple that was ? She and her man keep a little hotel up at Oriental . They 're not very well off . She is a cousin of old Mrs. Carroll , but , lawful heart , the Carrolls did n't used to make much of the relationship ! Well , Mrs. Joel and I had a chat . She told me all her troubles -- she always has lots of them . Sarah was always of a grumbling turn , and she had a brand-new stock of them this time . What do you think , Anna March ? Lou Carroll -- or Mrs. Baxter , I suppose I should say -- is up there at Joel Kent 's at Oriental , dying of consumption ; leastwise , Mrs. Joel says she is . '' `` Lou Carroll dying at Oriental ! '' cried Mrs. March . `` Yes . She came there from goodness knows where , about a month ago -- might as well have dropped from the clouds , Mrs. Joel says , for all she expected of it . Her husband is dead , and I guess he led her a life of it when he was alive , and she 's as poor as second skimmings . She was aiming to come here , Mrs. Joel says , but when she got to Oriental she was n't fit to stir a step further , and the Kents had to keep her . I gather from what Mrs. Joel said that she 's rather touched in her mind too , and has an awful hankering to get home here -- to this very house .
She appears to have the idea that it is hers , and all just the same as it used XXXXX be .
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