"Dear me, I shall be twenty; think of it!" From Bess's tone one might
have inferred that this meant extreme old age.
"I expect to be married before that," remarked Elsie confidently.
"Is it possible? I wonder to whom," Aleck exclaimed with an air of
great surprise.
"I am sure I don't know, for I have never seen anybody I'd marry if he
begged me forever," she retorted scornfully.
"Be quiet, you two geese, and don't spoil this lovely day by
quarrelling," admonished Dora.
"To change the subject, isn't Aunt Zelie a daisy?" said Carl, pointing
across the lawn where she stood, looking wonderfully fair and sweet in
her soft white dress, with a touch of sunlight on her hair.
"There is nobody in the world like her," said Dora.
"I should think not!" echoed Jim.
"She is the dearest, loveliest, most beautiful, and
everything-else-you-can-think-of person that ever lived," Louise
declared with emphasis.
"You haven't left much for the rest of us to say," remarked Will, "but
I am sure we all agree."
There must have been some attraction about the ten pairs of eyes, for
just then she turned, and seeing them smiled and threw a kiss in their
direction.
The sad thing about this wedding was the parting which followed.
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