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I shall dislike to go, after all, she said at last,
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Then this mingled clouds and sunshine of a girl deliberately rose, and like a big baby, crept into her brother's lap, and tucking her sunny head under his chin, whispered,
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Oh, if you were never going to be married, Bertie, I would leave it all and try to be contented. I could come up here every summer, and go the rounds, could I not? Then she added disconsolately,
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But you will get married, and in less than a year, too. I know it. Your beautiful island girl cannot and will not keep you waiting so long. I could not if I were she, I know.
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No sweetheart and no wife shall ever lessen my love for you, Alice, who have been my playmate, my companion, and my confidant all my life. And if you are likely to be homesick and unhappy in Boston, we will abandon the plan at once.
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Let me think about it a few weeks first, she replied.
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I could not go away until this term of school is over, and that will not be till Christmas.
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Come, now, sis, sing a little for me; I am hungry to hear you once more.
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Hold the Fort, and singing every verse of that, followed it with
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Pull for the Shore.
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My dear sis, you are not punishing me for what I once said half as much as you think you are. Sing some more of them; they sound like old times.
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Quilting Party will surely recall some moonlight walk home with a boyhood sweetheart along a maple-shaded lane, when
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and
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Money Musk will carry you back to a lantern-lit barn floor with one fiddler perched on a pile of meal bags; and how delightful it was to clasp that same sweet girl's waist when
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Lily Dale to
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Suwanee River and back to
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Bonny Eloise and
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Patter of the Rain,
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Do you know, sis, that an evening like this in Boston would seem like a little taste of heaven to me, after I came back from the all-day grind among hard-hearted, selfish men who think only of the mighty dollar! And now you see why I want you to come to Boston to live.