Then she laughed . `` Dear Miss Cornelia , they 're only little children . And you KNOW they 've never yet done anything bad -- they 're just heedless and impulsive -- as I was myself once . They 'll grow sedate and sober -- as I 've done . '' Miss Cornelia laughed , too . `` There are times , Anne dearie , when I know by your eyes that YOUR soberness is put on like a garment and you 're really aching to do something wild and young again . 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 XXXXX I have company coming to tea to-morrow and I must go home and set my bread , '' said Miss Cornelia .
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