Well , I feel encouraged . Somehow , a talk with you always does have that effect on me . Now , when I go to see Barbara Samson , it 's just the opposite . She makes me feel that everything 's wrong and always will be . But of course living all your life with a man like Joe Samson would n't be exactly cheering . '' `` It is a very strange thing to think that she married Joe Samson after all her chances , '' remarked Susan . `` She was much sought after when she was a girl . She used to boast to me that she had twenty-one beaus and Mr. Pethick . '' `` 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 XXXXX I can fathom .
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