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mightily. Financial assistance was something he understood how to offer very well.
"Oh, yes; we have a number of people in the summer. We do quite well enough in a business way, only if it were a health resort we should do much better; so much better that by and by we could stop, and go somewhere else, and see a different sort of people."
"Doesn't she like the sort of people here?"
"Oh, for herself she doesn't care at all! It's on my account, you see." She made a little grimace. "The people who come here are not 'advantageous'—at least that is what she says."
Carron could easily imagine it. The people who up in such out-of-the-way places are those strange people out of nowhere. He could very easily fancy how they would look, sitting around the yellow pine drawing-room in the evenings. "And do you like them?"
"They are more fun than the advantageous people; yes, on the whole, I do."
"And do you like the place?"
"In the summer? Yes, it is rather fun."
"No, at all times, summer and winter. How do you like living here all the year around?"
Evidently she had never considered this before. "I don't know. It's my home."
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