She seems real friendly -- none of your stuck-up fine ladies ! I 've had all I want of them , I can tell you ! '' `` Sh -- sh -- sh ! '' said Mr. Bentley warningly , as Ethel Lennox came in with her arm about Agnes . She looked even more lovely without her hat , with the soft red tendrils of hair lying on her forehead . Mrs. Bentley sent a telegraphic message of admiration across the table to her husband , who was helping the cold tongue and feeling his way to a conversation . `` You 'll find it pretty quiet here , Miss Lennox . We 're plain folks and there ai n't much going and coming . Maybe you do n't mind that , though ? '' `` I like it . When one has been teaching school all the year in a noisy city , quiet seems the one thing to be desired . Besides , I like to fancy myself something of an artist . I paint and sketch a little when I have time , and Miss Courtland , who was here last summer , said I could not find a more suitable spot . So I came because I knew that mackerel fishing was carried on along the shore , and I would have a chance to study character among the fishermen . '' `` Well , the shore ai n't far away , and it 's pretty -- though maybe us folks here do n't appreciate it rightly , being as we 're so used to it . Strangers are always going crazy over its ` picturesqueness , ' as they call it . As for ` character , ' I reckon you 'll find all you want of that among the Pointers ; anyway , I never seed such critters as they be . When you get tired of painting , maybe you can amuse yourself trying to get to the bottom of our mystery . '' `` Oh , have you a mystery ? How interesting ! ''
`` Yes , a mystery -- a mystery , '' repeated Mr. Bentley solemnly , `` XXXXX nobody hai n't been able to solve so far .
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