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However that may be, the wedding was a happy one, and the Aldens of all America claim John and Priscilla for their ancestors. Mother Crewe was of evil repute in Plymouth in the last century.
Stella went back to the living room and sang for them until it was time to go to bed. The Aldens went first, then Charlie. Stella left her door ajar. An hour afterward, when Fyfe came down the hall, she rose.
Readily the boys promised to wear the money bags, and with a hearty handshake with each their aged friend went home. The night passed quickly and the morning was busily spent in getting the luggage to the station. As the family waited for the train the dingy little station was alive with people who had come to wish the Aldens pleasant journeys.
For they were the John Aldens, the Priscillas, the Miles Standishes and the Dorothy Q's of as great a society as the Pilgrim Fathers and Pilgrim Mothers set a-going: the society of the great commonwealth of Iowa. The big supper I guess they would call it a dinner now served in the large room on a long table and some smaller ones, was the great event of the party.
However that may be, the wedding was a happy one, and the Aldens of all America claim John and Priscilla for their ancestors. Mother Crewe was of evil repute in Plymouth in the last century.
"You mustn't think that I was discontented because I wished that you and I lived in a mansion. I am not one bit discontented. I was just wishing." "Learn to be contented. Folks are miserable otherwise. The Aldens, taking them as a family, were not complainers or grumblers except Ezra, and how he ever came by it, I do not know. He was never contented.
The Aldens are not people who 'do' things. The day after the news came, he and General Wright walked arm and arm all over Yorkburg, and their heads were high; but oh, my dear, it was pitiful. They didn't know, but they were clinging to each other, and the Major's face was like death." "Didn't some one say he had been pretty strict with her? Held too tight a rein?"
He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so long as it produced dividends." Lastly, Charlie Benton came over to eat a farewell dinner with the Aldens the night before they left. He followed Stella into the nursery when she went to tuck Jack Junior in his crib.
Along one side was a long row of boxes and trunks in which the Aldens, for generations, had kept their heirlooms. So far as money value was considered, there was nothing here worth while. A surveyor's compass and staff, a spinning wheel; old blue dishes covered with hair-like lines. There was no real lace, and there were no handsome gowns. Nevertheless, they meant much to Debby Alden.
"Then it's a signal," declared Pete. "You boys have been followed. It's a mighty good thing we were camping here." "Those cries came from the plains. Mebbe it's the thieves going for more cattle," declared Sandy. "We'll find out what it is. Everybody to horse!" commanded Mr. Wilder. "Pete, three or four of you go with Horace and the Aldens to get their ponies. We'll ride up and join you."
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