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The Promised Land

CHAPTER VII
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At some corners, too, I had to stop and study my route.

I do not think I was frightened at all, though I imagine my back was very straight and my head very high all the way; for I was well aware that I was out on an adventure.
I did not speak to any one till I reached my Aunt Leah's; and then I hardly had a chance to speak, I was so much hugged and laughed over and cried over, and questioned and cross-questioned, without anybody waiting to hear my answers.

I had meant to surprise Cousin Rachel, and I had frightened her.

When she had come to Uncle Solomon's to take me back, she found the house in an uproar, everybody frightened at my disappearance.

The neighborhood was searched, and at last messengers were sent to Aunt Leah's.


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