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Gypsy’s Cousin Joy

CHAPTER XIV
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Then, you see, he was so crazy to see me and let me know he wasn't dead, he couldn't possibly wait; so he hired a carriage and drove all the way over Sunday.

And oh, Peace, when I saw him out there in the entry!" "I guess you said your prayers that night," said Peace, smiling.
"I rather guess I did! And Peace, that makes me think"-- Joy grew suddenly very grave; there was an earnest, thoughtful look in her eyes that Joy's eyes did not have when she first came to Yorkbury; a look that they had been slowly learning all this year; that they had been very quickly learning these past few weeks--"When I get home it's going to be hard--a good many things are going to be hard." "Yes, I see," said Peace, musingly.

Peace always seemed to see just what other people were living and hoping and fearing, without any words from them to explain it.
"It's all so different from what it is here.

I don't want to forget what you've told me and Auntie's told me.

Almost everybody I know at home doesn't care for what you do up here in Yorkbury.


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