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 we’ll fix this all right 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