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--how they waited in the big, barn-like, foggy station for what Blair called the
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how they boarded it for
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--all seemed very funny when they were old enough to look back upon it. It even seemed funny, a day or two afterward, to their alarmed elders. But at the time it was not amusing to anybody. David was gloomy at being obliged to marry Nannie;
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I pretty near wish I'd stayed with Elizabeth, he said, crossly. Nannie was frightened, because, she declared,
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Mamma'll be mad;--now I tell you, Blair, she'll be mad! And Blair was sulky because he had no wife. Yet, in spite of these varying emotions, pushed by Blair's resolution, they really did venture forth to
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Elizabeth! my lamb! What is the matter?
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I have a great many sorrows,
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But what _are_ you doing?
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I am blacking my red shoes, Elizabeth wailed; and so she was, the blacking-sponge on its shaky wire dripping all over the carpet.
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My beautiful red shoes; I am blacking them; and now they are spoiled forever.
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But why do you want to spoil them? gasped Miss White, struggling to take the blacking-bottle away from her.
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Elizabeth, tell me immejetly! What has happened?
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I didn't go on the journey, said Elizabeth;