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"What, steal away without even saying good-bye to them! Why, Polynesia, what a thing to suggest!" "A fat chance they would give you to say good-bye!" snorted Polynesia growing impatient at last. "I tell you, Doctor, if you go back to that palace tonight, for goodbys or anything else, you will stay there. Now this moment is the time for you to go."
There was more, but no merrier, and when at last the platform was cleared for the last time, the guests were refreshed by the passing of a small glass of punch and a wafer to each. Then they went, with a flutter of silk stockings and twinkling slipper buckles, and a medley of shrieked goodbys. Warble and Petticoat reached home. "Howja like 'em?" he asked. "I'm so hungry," she wailed.
They had come to bid me farewell and godspeed, all my friends and my relations, and I went among them, shaking them by the hand and thinking of the long whiles before I'd be seeing them again. And then all my goodbys were said, and we went aboard, and my voyage had begun. I looked back at the hills and the heather, and I thought of all I was to do and see before I saw those hills again.
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