p023_Dairy of Martha Call

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text. A Mr Clarke came home to dinner with us, a very
pretty young man, and a college student. There was
more light conversation than I think just right
on the Sabbath, but I carried my part in it.

Mr Clarke, I should think has quite a high opinion
of himself, and Edward says, thinks himself quite a
lady-killer. I dont know whether he intended to kill
me or not, but he said that if I was going to spend
the winter here, he should make a cousin of me,
though Edward says that he would have to ask him
first. Upon the whole I thought him quite agreeable.
In the afternoon Cara and I went to Grace Church,
which is magnificent beyond description - the music
too is fine but of the sermon I had not a very
high opinion - the text I have forgotten. It was
quite late when we reached home, and Harrison
Liscomb was here with his little daughter, also
another young man - the name I have forgotten. I was
too tired to go to church in the evening, so I stayed
at home. In the course of the day Edward informed
me that his engagement with Mary Root was
altogether premature, and that no other Root has
taken her place, as I had heard. He says that when
he first saw me, he thought that I resembled Abbie
Osgood, and determined not to like me at all, but
he has altered his mind, and likes me very much.

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