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"It was a crazy thing, but John had really persuaded him, and John was too young to have any judgment. But he said the Astors were buying up there, and land was almost given away." "I don't know what it's good for," declared Aunt Frasie. "Why it'll be forty years before the city'll go out there. Well, it may be good for his grandchildren." They all gave a little laugh.
Presently another of the cousins sat down at the piano and played the "Battle of Prague." Then Aunt Frasie said, "Do sing something. It doesn't seem half like music without the singing." Maria Jane ran her fingers over the keys, and began a plaintive air very much in vogue: "Shed not a tear o'er your friend's early bier, When I am gone, I am gone."
Aunt Frasie heard her through the first verse, and then said impatiently: "You've sung that at so many funerals, Maria Jane, that it makes me feel creepy. You used to sing 'Banks and Braes. Do try that." It had been said of Maria Jane in her earlier years that she had sung "Bonnie Doon" so pathetically she had moved the roomful to tears.
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