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ever it was he said. I still have a kind of an idea that Avy will never get married and still I don't know why I should think so. I guess I ought not. Before I forget it I want to tell you something and you must not get mad. You know I know the world better than you do and what the people are doing in it. I want you to take what I say for the truth and not ask any questions. Mrs. Hart is not a fit person for a young girl to go and see alone. No young girl ought to be seen going to her house without some one being with her. She is no better than she ought to be

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and ought to know better than ask decent people to come an see her. If she doesn't your brother does and he ought to have manliness enough to tell you. Frank W. told me of the Smith girls but of course he had to say it in such a way that they didn't get the full benefit of it and thought he was meddling with what was none of his business. Take my word for it if your mother knew the case she would never let you go there alone: not because of any harm that would be done to you except the looks of the thing. Now don't tell any one only when you go there about your cloths just take someone with you and believe me I know how things