[Gypsy Breynton by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]@TWC D-Link bookGypsy Breynton CHAPTER VIII 15/17
"I like you very much." "How funny!" said Gypsy.
Then she bade her good-by, and went to school. "Mother," she said, at night, "did you have any particular reason in sending me to Peace Maythorne ?" "Perhaps so," said Mrs.Breynton, smiling.
"Why ?" "Nothing, only I thought so.
You were a very wise woman." A while after she spoke up, suddenly. "Mother, don't the Quakers say good matches are made in heaven ?" "Who's been putting sentimental ideas into the child's head ?" said her father, in an undertone. "Why, Gypsy Breynton!" said Winnie, looking very much shocked; "you hadn't ought to say such things.
Of course, the brimstone falls down from hell, and they pick it up and put it on the matches!" "What made you ask the question ?" said Mrs.Breynton, when the laugh had subsided. "Oh, I was only thinking, I guessed Peace Maythorne's name was made in heaven.
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