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-"MRS. FLANDERS"--"Poor Betty Flanders"--"Dear Betty"--"She's very attractive still"--"Odd she don't marry again!" "There's Captain Barfoot to be sure--calls every Wednesday as regular as clockwork, and never brings his wife."
-"But that's Ellen Barfoot's fault," the ladies of Scarborough said. "She don't put herself out for no one."