But Lena never had any sense of how she
should make people stand round for her, and that was always all the
trouble with her. And poor Lena, she was so stupid to be sorry for
losing that gawky fool who didn't ever know what he wanted and just
said "ja" to his mamma and his papa, like a baby, and was scared to
look at a girl straight, and then sneaked away the last day like as
if somebody was going to do something to him. Disgrace, Lena talking
about disgrace! It was a disgrace for a girl to be seen with the likes
of him, let alone to be married to him. But that poor Lena, she never
did know how to show herself off for what she was really. Disgrace to
have him go away and leave her. Mary would just like to get a chance
to show him. If Lena wasn't worth fifteen like Herman Kreder, Mary
would just eat her own head all up. It was a good riddance Lena had of
that Herman Kreder and his stingy, dirty parents, and if Lena didn't
stop crying about it,--Mary would just naturally despise her.
Poor Lena, she knew very well how Mary meant it all, this she was
always saying to her. But Lena was very miserable inside her. She felt
the disgrace it was for a decent german girl that a man should go away
and leave her. Lena knew very well that her aunt was right when she
said the way Herman had acted to her was a disgrace to everyone that
knew her. Mary and Nellie and the other girls she always sat with were
always very good to Lena but that did not make her trouble any better.
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