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Updated: June 4, 2025
"You may depend upon it I will." "Mother Kirstine!" he said, in a low voice, and looking down, "I brought a dress with me for her that I had bought in Boston. And then I heard all this, and I couldn't contain myself." He said nothing about the rings.
"You ought to know that best, mother Kirstine," he said, earnestly. She held up the light to his face, and looked at him in vague anxiety, but could make nothing out of it. "If I ought to know it, tell me," she said, almost in a tone of entreaty.
That old Mother Kirstine should be laid up, was, in its way, an event in the place. Having been professed sick-nurse for so many years, she was connected by ties of grateful recollection with a number of families.
"So that was the way of it," he rejoined sarcastically. "The 'yes' and 'no' meant that the Becks wouldn't have her for a daughter-in-law, and bundled her out of the house over to Holland; and you want me to believe it was for my sake she went. God knows," he added, sadly, and shaking his head slowly, "I would willingly believe it more willingly than I can say; but I can't, Mother Kirstine.
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