`` Oh , I 'll try , '' sighed Mary . `` But it wo n't be as easy for me to be good -- inside , I mean , as well as outside -- as it is for you . You had n't such scalawags of relations as I had . '' `` But your people must have had some good qualities as well as bad ones , '' argued Una . `` You must live up to them and never mind their bad ones . '' `` I do n't believe they had any good qualities , '' said Mary gloomily . `` I never heard of any . My grandfather had money , but they say he was a rascal . No , I 'll just have to start out on my own hook and do the best I can . '' `` And God will help you , you know , Mary , if you ask Him . '' `` I do n't know about that . '' `` Oh , Mary . You know we asked God to get a home for you and He did . '' `` I do n't see what He had to do with it , '' retorted Mary . `` It was you put it into Mrs. Elliott 's head . '' `` But God put it into her HEART to take you . All my putting it into her HEAD would n't have done any good if He had n't . '' `` Well , there may be something in that , '' admitted Mary . `` Mind you , I have n't got anything against God , Una . I 'm willing to give Him a chance .
But , honest , I think He 's an awful lot like your father -- just absent-minded and never taking any notice of a body most of the time , but sometimes waking up all XXXXX a suddent and being awful good and kind and sensible . ''
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