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  tion was a raging flood; but though the bride and groom were drenched to the skin they did n’t take cold—they were too happy. Love within is a beautiful counter-irritant.

Huldah did n’t mind waiting a little matter of nineteen years, so long as her maiden flag sank in a sea of triumph at the end; and it is but simple justice to an erring but attractive woman to remark that she never said “I told you so!” to her husband.