ht in about ten minutes. You've
known me ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's
business but ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a
few other things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she
said what would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price
of their interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to
it--for a sort of wedding-present, you see--I didn't see but what you
could well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you
liked--she said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I
don't know--Connecticut ought to be good enough for anybody!"
They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
"I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all," said Aunt Julia
placidly. "He's the kindest man--"
And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
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