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 other a lot more that was worth while than we were giving to that other girl.

We didn't tell anybody about the desk, because we didn't want to have to talk about her. We'd got to feeling pretty respectably toward her—and we didn't want anybody else butting in; so we left it at the furniture store until we should be ready for it.

The month of January dragged some, as it always does; but February was a short month and we sailed over that, just touching the high places. I read a good deal in the Christian Science text-book during the winter evenings; and found a lot of difference between looking for things that I could understand, and looking for things to quarrel with. It was perfectly astonishing how friendly the difficult ones became, when I had made friends with their relations!—and I got real chummy with the best society of thoughts that I'd ever come into contact with;—and some of them I hadn't even had a bowing acquaintance with before;—and there were some perfectly fine ones that I had been in a habit of throwing stones at whenever I caught a glimpse of them, that I found now to be a lot better company than all