Every opinion I expressed turned out to be her opinion also. It
always irritated me."
"That might have been weak-mindedness," said the Old Maid, which
sounded ambiguous.
"It is not so unpleasant as having a person always disagreeing with
you," said the Woman of the World. "My cousin Susan never would
agree with any one. If I came down in red she would say, 'Why
don't you try green, dear? every one says you look so well in
green'; and when I wore green she would say, 'Why have you given up
red dear? I thought you rather fancied yourself in red.' When I
told her of my engagement to Tom, she burst into tears and said she
couldn't help it. She had always felt that George and I were
intended for one another; and when Tom never wrote for two whole
months, and behaved disgracefully in--in other ways, and I told her
I was engaged to George, she reminded me of every word I had ever
said about my affection for Tom, and of how I had ridiculed poor
George. Papa used to say, 'If any man ever tells Susan that he
loves her, she will argue him out of it, and will never accept him
until he has jilted her, and will refuse to marry him every time he
asks her to fix the day.
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