The whole thing has hardened too long . Her pride will never let her speak . We used to hope she would be tricked into it by forgetfulness or accident -- we used to lay traps for her -- but all to no effect . It is such a shame , too . They were made for each other . Do you know , I get cross when I begin to thrash the whole silly affair over like this . Does n't it sound as if we were talking of the quarrel of two school-children ? Of late years we have learned that it does not do to speak of Lucinda to Romney , even in the most commonplace way . He seems to resent it . '' `` HE ought to speak , '' cried Mrs. George warmly . `` Even if she were in the wrong ten times over , he ought to overlook it and speak first . '' `` But he wo n't . And she wo n't . You never saw two such determined mortals . They get it from their grandfather on the mother 's side -- old Absalom Gordon . There is no such stubbornness on the Penhallow side . His obstinacy was a proverb , my dear -- actually a proverb . What ever he said , he would stick to if the skies fell . He was a terrible old man to swear , too , '' added Mrs. Frederick , dropping into irrelevant reminiscence . `` He spent a long while in a mining camp in his younger days and he never got over it -- the habit of swearing , I mean .
It would have made your blood run cold , my dear , XXXXX have heard him go on at times .
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