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Homestead on the Hillside

CHAPTER VII
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I may have been mistaken, for I was looking after my baggage and only caught a glimpse of him.
If it were he his presence bodes no good." "Have you told Carrie ?" asked Juliet.
"No, I have not.

She seems so nervous whenever he is mentioned," was Agnes' reply.
I thought of the obligations once referred to by Agnes, and felt that I should breathe more freely when Carrie really was married.

Other guests now began to arrive, and we who had fixed long enough before the looking-glass repaired to the parlor below.

Bill, who saw Sally married, had convinced me that the story of the broomstick was a falsehood, so I was prepared for its absence, but I wondered then, not more than I do now, why grown-up people shouldn't be whipped for telling untruths to children as well as children for telling untruths to grown-up people.
The parlor was now rapidly filling, and I was in great danger of being thrust into the corner, where I could see nothing, when Aunt Eunice very benevolently drew me near her, saying I should see if no one else did.

At last Mr.Ashmore and Carrie came.


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