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Emily hasn't had time to tidy it up yet"

As soon as they were coan his tale of woe

"I lived in Scottsford, New Brunswick, before I came here, Anne My sister kept house for me and she suited me fine; she was just reasonably tidy and she let me alone and spoiled o she died Before she died she worried a lot about as to becoet married She advised me to take Emily Scott because Emily had money of her own and was a pattern housekeeper I said, says I, 'Emily Scott wouldn't look at me' 'You ask her and see,' says my sister; and just to ease her mind I promised her I wouldand I did And Emily said she'd have me Never was so surprised in my life, Annea smart pretty little woht at first I was in luck Well, eretrip to St John for a fortnight and then ent hoive you my word, Anne, that in half an hour that wo ot a very expressive face, Anne; your thoughts just come out on it like printbut it didn't, not that bad It had got prettybachelor's hall, I adot a woman to come in and clean it up before I wasdone I tell you if you took Emily into a brand nehiteas soon as she could get an old dress on Well, she cleaned house till one o'clock that night and at four she was up and at it again And she kept on that wayfar's I could see she never stopped It was scour and sweep and dust everlasting, except on Sundays, and then she was just longing for Monday to begin again But it was her way of a herself and I could have reconciled myself to it if she'd left me alone But that she wouldn't do She'd set out to h I wasn't allowed to coed my boots for slippers at the door I darsn't smoke a pipe for h grammar Emily'd been a schoolteacher in her early life and she'd never got over it Then she hated to seeeverlasting But I s'pose, Anne, to be fair, _I_ was cantankerous too I didn't try to ireeable when she found fault I told her one day she hadn't cora to say A wo her sooner than for hinting she was toolike that and it wasn't exactly pleasant, but we ot used to each other after a spell if it hadn't been for Ginger Ginger was the rock we split on at last Eer's profane habits of speech I was attached to the bird for my brother the sailor's sake My brother the sailor was a pet of er toworked up over his swearing