When I think of what she was then and what she is now , I say -- drat the men ! '' Miss Cornelia snipped her thread off as viciously as if , Nero-like , she was severing the neck of mankind by the stroke . `` Dick Moore came into her life that summer . His father , Abner Moore , kept store at the Glen , but Dick had a sea-going streak in him from his mother ; he used to sail in summer and clerk in his father 's store in winter . He was a big , handsome fellow , with a little ugly soul . He was always wanting something till he got it , and then he stopped wanting it -- just like a man . Oh , he did n't growl at the weather when it was fine , and he was mostly real pleasant and agreeable when everything went right . But he drank a good deal , and there were some nasty stories told of him and a girl down at the fishing village . He was n't fit for Leslie to wipe her feet on , that 's the long and short of it . And he was a Methodist ! But he was clean mad about her -- because of her good looks in the first place , and because she would n't have anything to say to him in the second . He vowed he 'd have her -- and he got her ! '' `` How did he bring it about ? '' `` Oh , it was an iniquitous thing ! I 'll never forgive Rose West . You see , dearie , Abner Moore held the mortgage on the West farm , and the interest was overdue some years , and Dick just went and told Mrs. West that if Leslie would n't marry him he 'd get his father to foreclose the mortgage . Rose carried on terrible -- fainted and wept , and pleaded with Leslie not to let her be turned out of her home . She said it would break her heart to leave the home she 'd come to as a bride . I would n't have blamed her for feeling dreadful bad over it -- but you would n't have thought she 'd be so selfish as to sacrifice her own flesh and blood because of it , would you ? Well , she was .
`` And Leslie gave in -- she loved her XXXXX so much she would have done anything to save her pain .
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