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`` Does -- '' asked Mrs. Lathrop , rising heavily to bid her friend good-bye . `` Most likely , '' said Susan ; `` at any rate if he does n't have any appetite . I like 'em myself . '' Miss Clegg and Mrs. Lathrop were sitting on the latter 's steps about five o'clock one Sunday afternoon when Elijah Doxey came out of the former 's house and walked away down town . `` I wond -- '' said Mrs. Lathrop . `` I do n't believe it , '' said Miss Clegg ; `` I know the way you look at it , Mrs. Lathrop , but _ I _ do n't believe it . All the girls is after him but that ai n't surprisin ' for girls are made to be after somethin' at that age an ' there 's almost nothin ' for them to run down in this community .