She was president of the Daughters once, by way of showing that our folks in North Carolina fought in the Revolution, which I reckon they did; though I never saw where Hallie proved it; but the speech I heard her make at the Propylaeum wouldn't have jarred things much if it hadn't been for Hallie's feathers.

She likes her clothes--she always had 'em, you know.

My brother Blackford left her a very nice fortune; and Morton Bassett makes money.

Well, as I started to say, there's all kinds of women,--the old ones like me that never went to school much, and Hallie's kind, that sort o' walked through the orchard and picked the nearest peaches, and then starts in at thirty to take courses in Italian Art, and Marian, who gives her teachers nervous prostration, and Sylvia, who takes to books naturally." "There are all kinds of girls, just as there are all kinds of boys.

Good students, real scholars have always been rare in the world--men and women.