[Patty Fairfield by Carolyn Wells]@TWC D-Link bookPatty Fairfield CHAPTER XVI 2/9
We will have an exact proportion of methodical regularity, without having so much of it that it will be a bugbear.
Oh, I tell you, my lady, our home is going to be a veritable Paradise on earth, and I am impatient to get it started.
You have only one more visit to make, and then I will come and kidnap my own daughter and carry her off with me for a Christmas present." "What a dear, wise father I've got," mused Patty, after reading this letter, "and how he understands everything, even without my telling him.
I _will_ try not to grow heedless and rattle-pated, though it's hard to be any other way in this house." One morning in August, Mrs.Barlow said to her husband, "Ted, you know the Carletons are coming this afternoon to stay several days, and I want you to go over to the three o'clock train to meet them.
Don't forget it, will you? And you'll have to engage a stage to bring them over, for there'll be Mr. and Mrs.Carleton and four children, and perhaps a nurse.
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