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Homestead on the Hillside

CHAPTER VII
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Anna can tell you exactly what she wore, but I cannot.

I only know that she looked most beautifully, though I have a vague recollection of fancying that in the making of her dress the sleeves were forgotten entirely, and the neck nearly so.
The marriage ceremony commenced, and I listened breathlessly, but this did not prevent me from hearing some one enter the house by the kitchen door.

Aunt Eunice heard it, too, and when the minister began to say something about Mrs.Ashmore she arose and went out.

Something had just commenced, I think they called them congratulations, when the crowd around the door began to huddle together in order to make room for some person to enter.

I looked up and saw Penoyer, his glittering teeth now partially disclosed, looking a very little fiendish, I thought.


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