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64_18 steadily without perceptible intermission for long continued, nay almost indefinite stretched of time. Altho quite young, about 19, she is in a way something of a wonder and her conversation, if a strictly one-sided performance can be called such, suggests most strongly the accumulated experience, wisdom, and authority of eighty summers. Mrs. G went into the hills with Miss Thacher. Next morning, bright and early, in came Mrs. G.; but unlike the hour, her whole manner exuded weariness and defeat. She said (in a hopeless sort of way which I remember with accuracy), You know Dr. Jepson, I went out walking with Olive Thacher. Well" - and she hesitated as if gathering force for what she had to |
64_19 say, "she is positively the most wearisome person I ever met. She tired me out utterly. And I said hardly a word either. I thought I would die before I got back. But hopes of liberation rose as we neared the Botany Building, and I was so delighted at the near prospect of relief that I was very polite to her, and the more the nearer we got back, "Well," said I cheerfully, "is that all?" "Oh, no, when we actually got back to the laboratory at five she asked to go home with us since she enjoyed my company so much; and I had been so polite and was so taken by surprise that I said it would please me greatly"(!!) Tableau. And then the Botany Man laughed and roared. He chortled |
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