"What's that?" called Mary McAdam from the closet. Jean repeated her
choice morsel, and Mary Terhune, preparing the midday meal, thrilled.
"I was at her borning," Jean remarked, "and I minded then and spoke it
open, that she was made of the odds and ends of them who went before her.
I've a notion that the good and evil that might have thinned out over all
the Glenn girls must work out thick in Priscilla."
"I'm thinking," Mary Terhune broke in, "that the mingling with such as
visits at the Lodge has upset the young miss. Her airs and graces! Lord
of heaven! how she has flouted the rest of the young uns! Aye, but they
are mouthing about her this day! 'Me and her,' said Jerry-Jo to me this
early morning, 'me and her got caught up in the woods, and, understanding
one another, we chose the dry to the wet, and brought things to a point.
Her and me will make tracks for the States. It's all evened up.' And I do
say," Mary went on, "that all considering, Jerry-Jo is doing the handsome
thing. I ain't picking flaws in her--maybe she's as clean as the
cleanest, but there's them who wouldn't believe it, as you both very well
know.
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