Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle LenaStein, Gertrude
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Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
Stein, Gertrude
Working class women -- Fiction
Mrs. Haydon did not see Lena now very often. She had not lost her
interest in her niece Lena, but Lena could not come much to her house
to see her, it would not be right, now Lena was a married woman.
And then too Mrs. Haydon had her hands full just then with her two
daughters, for she was getting them ready to find them good husbands,
and then too her own husband now worried her very often about her
always spoiling that boy of hers, so he would be sure to turn out no
good and be a disgrace to a german family, and all because his mother
always spoiled him. All these things were very worrying now to Mrs.
Haydon, but still she wanted to be good to Lena, though she could not
see her very often. She only saw her when Mrs. Haydon went to call
on Mrs. Kreder or when Mrs. Kreder came to see Mrs. Haydon, and that
never could be very often. Then too these days Mrs. Haydon could not
scold Lena, Mrs. Kreder was always there with her, and it would not be
right to scold Lena, when Mrs. Kreder was there, who had now the real
right to do it. And so her aunt always said nice things now to Lena,
and though Mrs. Haydon sometimes was a little worried when she saw
Lena looking sad and not careful, she did not have time just then to
really worry much about it.
Lena now never any more saw the girls she always used to sit with. She
had no way now to see them and it was not in Lena's nature to search
out ways to see them, nor did she now ever think much of the days when
she had been used to see them. They never any of them had come to the
Kreder house to see her. Not even Irish Mary had ever thought to come
to see her. Lena had been soon forgotten by them. They had soon passed
away from Lena and now Lena never thought any more that she had ever
known them.
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