`` I like a man who can stick to a thing , '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` Amos Grant , who used to be after me long ago , could n't . You never saw such a weather-vane . He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again . Was n't that like a man ? Marshall would have stuck to it and drowned . '' `` And he has a bit of a temper , they tell me , '' persisted Gilbert . `` He would n't be an Elliott if he had n't . I 'm thankful he has . It will be real fun to make him mad . And you can generally do something with a tempery man when it comes to repenting time . But you ca n't do anything with a man who just keeps placid and aggravating . '' `` You know he 's a Grit , Miss Cornelia . '' `` Yes , he IS , '' admitted Miss Cornelia rather sadly . `` And of course there is no hope of making a Conservative of him . But at least he is a Presbyterian . So I suppose I shall have to be satisfied with that . '' `` Would you marry him if he were a Methodist , Miss Cornelia ? '' `` No , I would not . Politics is for this world , but religion is for both . ''
`` And you may be a ` relict ' after all , XXXXX Cornelia . ''
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