The Courting of Prissy Strong I WAS N'T able to go to prayer meeting that evening because I had neuralgia in my face ; but Thomas went , and the minute he came home I knew by the twinkle in his eye that he had some news . `` Who do you s ` pose Stephen Clark went home with from meeting to-night ? '' he said , chuckling . `` Jane Miranda Blair , '' I said promptly . Stephen Clark 's wife had been dead for two years and he had n't taken much notice of anybody , so far as was known . But Carmody had Jane Miranda all ready for him , and really I do n't know why she did n't suit him , except for the reason that a man never does what he is expected to do when it comes to marrying . Thomas chuckled again . `` Wrong . He stepped up to Prissy Strong and walked off with her . Cold soup warmed over . '' `` Prissy Strong ! '' I just held up my hands . Then I laughed . `` He need n't try for Prissy , '' I said . `` Emmeline nipped that in the bud twenty years ago , and she 'll do it again . '' `` Em ` line is an old crank , '' growled Thomas . He detested Emmeline Strong , and always did . `` She 's that , all right , '' I agreed , `` and that is just the reason she can turn poor Prissy any way she likes . You mark my words , she 'll put her foot right down on this as soon as she finds it out . '' Thomas said that I was probably right .
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