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that you have got lots of "notions and whims" that you would get over if you were separated from me.  Of course these "notions" are my ideas in regard to tobacco, dress, diet, doctoring and spiritualism, principally. He told an awful nasty story to Mrs. Colby and me and she gave him a good "setting out" telling him he ought to be ashamed to befoul his brain by allowing it to run on filthy things so much. She said a good deal more and I echoed her sentiments. He thought we two were terribly "modest old ladies" and so on, but he didn't tell any more such stuff while she stayed.  Another thing she raked him down on and that was the shameful way in which he always speaks of George. He always calls him "that thing" or "that fool" or "that idiot" or "knave," and she resented it. After she cut through I took him in hand and told him plainly that he could ridicule spiritualism as much as he liked; I didn't care; but as to having him talk as he had done of one of whom he knew nothing, and who was not only my friend but Nettie's, I would not endure it.

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that you have got lots of "notions and whims" that you would get over if you were separated from me. Of course these "notions" are my ideas in regard to tobacco, dress, diet, doctoring and spiritualism, principally. He told an awful nasty story to Mrs. Colby and me and she gave him a good "setting out" telling him he ought to be ashamed to befoul his brain by allowing it to run on filthy things so much. She said a good deal more and I echoed her sentiments. He thought we two were terribly "modest old ladies" and so on, but he didn't tell any more such stuff while she stayed. Another thing she raked him down on and that was the shameful way in which he always speaks of George. He always calls him "that thing" or "that fool" or "that idiot" or "knave," and she resented it. After she cut through I took him in hand and told him plainly that he could ridicule spiritualism as much as he liked; I didn't care; but as to having him talk as he had done of one of whom he knew nothing, and who was not only my friend but Nettie's, I would not endure it.