Cowell in the pleasure of meeting
Tom, but after he had asked her a dozen questions, about herself, he
said:
'And how do you like Limeton, Mary?'
'Oh, perfectly detestable! I cannot think how anybody can live there.'
'Ah! I see you have still those Mapleton ideas, Mary. Now, I hate
Mapleton, and am always glad to get out of it, the people are such
snobs. You are the only pleasant person I ever met there. Limeton
people are substantial, true-hearted, and--and, in short, Mary, I am
much disappointed that you don't like the finest city in the State.'
'Finest city in the State, indeed!' says Mary, stung by his
disparagement of her native city. 'It is a most unpleasant place,
smoky, grimy, and unhealthy, and the people, as far as I have met
them, may be substantial enough, but they are dreadfully tiresome and
uninteresting. I don't mean you, Tom,' she adds, seeing him glare
down upon her in angry astonishment.
'I am much obliged, I am sure, that you make an exception in my
favour, but I cannot take credit myself at the expense of my mother
and Louise.'
'Oh! I like Louise.'
'And not my mother, I infer?
'No.
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