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You are our guests this evening, said Alice with quiet dignity, when Blanch urged her to take one,
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and made up her mind that she was no bogie at all. When the curtain fell, Mrs. Nason began chatting with Alice in the pleasantest way possible, and with seemingly cordial interest in all she said, while Blanch wisely kept quiet and Edith devoted herself to Albert. It was after the second curtain when Mrs. Nason said:
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I must insist that you divide your visit with us, Miss Page, and allow us to return a little of your hospitality. Of course I understand that your brother comes first, and rightly too, but we must claim a part of your time.
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I had promised myself one or two evenings at your home, Alice answered quietly,
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Now do not offer your brother as an excuse, she said,
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I do not see why you cannot see your brother and visit with him just as well at our house, put in Mrs. Nason;
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It is nice of you to insist, and I am more than grateful, but it must be as he says. Then she added prettily:
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He is my papa and mamma now, and the cook and captain bold, and mate of the 'Nancy' brig as well.
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I will stir up a mutiny on the 'Nancy' brig if he does not consent, laughed Blanch,
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Well, what do you think of the 'haughty mother' now? observed Albert, after the Nasons had rolled away in their carriage.
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Is she the awful spectre you imagined?
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Oh, she's nice enough, answered Alice,
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Don't you dare to say any sweet things while she is here, Blanch had cautioned him at the outset.
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In the first place it is not good form, and in the second it would offend her. Be as gallant as you know how, but do not let mamma see that you are any more attentive to Alice than to Ede and I. If you hope to win your pretty schoolma'am you must pay your court in her own home, not here.