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A Man for the Ages

CHAPTER VIII
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She'd die for him." "Girls are awful curious--nobody can tell what they mean," said Harry.
"Sometimes they don't know what they mean themselves.

Often I say something or do something and wonder and wonder what it means." She was looking off at the distant plain as she spoke.
"Sometimes I'm surprised to find out how much it means," she added.

"I reckon every girl is a kind of a puzzle and some are very easy and some would give ye the headache." "Or the heartache." "Did you ever ride a horse sitting backwards--when you're going one way and looking another and you don't know what's coming ?" she asked.
"What's behind you is before you and the faster you go the more danger you're in ?" Harry laughed.
"Isn't that the way we have to travel in this world whether we're going to love or to mill ?" the girl asked, with a sigh.

"We can not tell what is ahead.

We see only what is behind us.


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