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 wuz under better influences that year than she ever wuz before or since, I spoze, and she enjoyed herself first rate, and realized the beauty of a good honest life, of duty and labor and simple pleasures and domestic happiness. She fell in love up there with a handsome young lumberman, Hatevil White, and would have liked to married him, he wuz a distant, a very distant relation to old Miss Warn, though she didn't have much to do with him then.

Well, they fell in love with each other, and I guess it would made a match, but Miss Green Smythe couldn't bear to have Medora marry a common Mr. and a lumberman at that, she hankered after a title in her family, so she took her home to New York and there she met her titled man. You know that in one of the big hotels there you can always see a hull row of 'em settin' in the hall, lookin' out for rich wives; they write their letters from that hotel and hang round there, but sleep, it is spozed, in some hall bedroom downtown, and eat where they can, but they are real lucky in findin' pardners, and there Medora found hern. He wuz quite good lookin', and, owin' to his title, a great pet amongst the four hundred. Why, they all wanted to marry him, the hull four hundred, or all of 'em that hadn't got some husbands, mebby three hundred or so. But Medora carried off the prize, her Ma wanted the title in the family, and he wanted Medora's money; she wuz spozed then, besides her own money, to be the heiress of her aunt.

But he turned out, as so many titled men do that hang round that 400 in New York, to be a imposter. He wuzn't a Baron, he wuz formerly a valley, or that is what they call it, to a real titled man, and from him he had got the ways of high life, good dressin', flowery, flat