That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up . She was as foolish when she was a hundred as when she was ten . '' `` Perhaps that was why she lived so long , '' suggested Anne . `` Maybe 't was . I 'd rather live fifty sensible years than a hundred foolish ones . '' `` But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible , '' pleaded Anne . Miss Cornelia disdained any skirmish of flippant epigram . `` Mrs. Roderick was a Milgrave , and the Milgraves never had much sense . Her nephew , Ebenezer Milgrave , used to be insane for years . He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she would n't bury him . I 'd a-done it . '' Miss Cornelia looked so grimly determined that Anne could almost see her with a spade in her hand . `` Do n't you know ANY good husbands , Miss Bryant ? '' `` Oh , yes , lots of them -- over yonder , '' said Miss Cornelia , waving her hand through the open window towards the little graveyard of the church across the harbor . `` But living -- going about in the flesh ? '' persisted Anne . `` Oh , there 's a few , just to show that with God all things are possible , '' acknowledged Miss Cornelia reluctantly . `` I do n't deny that an odd man here and there , if he 's caught young and trained up proper , and if his mother has spanked him well beforehand , may turn out a decent being . YOUR husband , now , is n't so bad , as men go , from all I hear . I s ` pose '' -- Miss Cornelia looked sharply at Anne over her glasses -- `` you think there 's nobody like him in the world . ''
`` There is n't , '' XXXXX Anne promptly .
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