` It is not fair , ' Gertrude says passionately . ` There is Agnes Carr who can vote because her husband went . She did everything she could to prevent him from going , and now she is going to vote against the Union Government . Yet I have no vote , because my man at the front is only my sweetheart and not my husband ! '' `` As for Susan , when she reflects that she can not vote , while a rank old pacifist like Mr. Pryor can -- and will -- her comments are sulphurous . `` I really feel sorry for the Elliotts and Crawfords and MacAllisters over-harbour . They have always lined up in clearly divided camps of Liberal and Conservative , and now they are torn from their moorings -- I know I 'm mixing my metaphors dreadfully -- and set hopelessly adrift . It will kill some of those old Grits to vote for Sir Robert Borden 's side -- and yet they have to because they believe the time has come when we must have conscription . And some poor Conservatives who are against conscription must vote for Laurier , who always has been anathema to them . Some of them are taking it terribly hard . Others seem to be in much the same attitude as Mrs. Marshall Elliott has come to be regarding Church Union . `` She was up here last night . She does n't come as often as she used to . She is growing too old to walk this far -- dear old ` Miss Cornelia . ' I hate to think of her growing old -- we have always loved her so and she has always been so good to us Ingleside young fry . `` She used to be so bitterly opposed to Church Union . But last night , when father told her it was practically decided , she said in a resigned tone , ` Well , in a world where everything is being rent and torn what matters one more rending and tearing ? Anyhow , compared with Germans even Methodists seem attractive to me . ' `` Our Junior R.C. goes on quite smoothly , in spite of the fact that Irene has come back to it -- having fallen out with the Lowbridge society , I understand . She gave me a sweet little jab last meeting -- about knowing me across the square in Charlottetown ` by my green velvet hat . '
Everybody knows me XXXXX that detestable and detested hat .
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