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"What do you say?" said Aunt Mary to the bride-to-be.
"Oh, I don't see--" began the latter, wrinkling her pretty forehead in a
prettier perplexity and looking helplessly back and forth between their
double eagerness.
"Well, why not?" said the aunt. "It ain't as if there was any reason for
waitin'. If there was I'd be the first to be willin' to do all I could to
be patient, but as it is--even if you an' Jack ain't in any particular
hurry, I am, an' I was brought up to go right to work at gettin' what you
want as soon as you know what it is."
"But this is so sudden," wailed Mrs. Rosscott.
Aunt Mary glanced at her sharply.
"That's what they all say, a'cordin' to the papers," she said calmly, "an'
it never is counted as anythin' but a joke."
"But I'm not joking," Janice cried.
"Then you jus' take a little time an' think it over," proposed the old
lady,--"I'll tell you what you can do. You can get me Lucinda because I
want to tell her suthin' and then you and Jack can sit down together an'
think it over anywhere an' anyhow you like."
"Do you really want Lucinda," said Janice, rising to her feet, "or is it
something that I can do? You know I'm yours just the same as ever, Aunt
Mary. Next to being good to Jack, I want to always be good to you."
Aunt Mary looked up with a light in her eyes that was fine to see.
"Bless you, my child," she said heartily. "I know that, but I really want
Lucinda, an' you an' Jack can take care of yourselves for a while.
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