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"Absurd notion?" repeated Alicia. "Absurd notion? But he asked you! Didn't he ask you?" "As to that, he told me I could marry him if I wanted to," I admitted. "Oh, Leetchy, it was funny, though! If you could have seen the poor dear, trying to martyr himself, just to oblige you " "You refused him?" breathlessly. "Of course. There wasn't anything to say but 'No." "But I saw "
"My goodness, Sophy, you must have had a terrific headache!" she exclaimed. "Why, your lips are bloodless, and you've black circles under your eyes!" "I'm all right this morning," I said, hastily. "But you look pale, yourself. Aren't you rather overdoing things, Leetchy?" "No: I'm as sound as a trivet!" said she. And then: "Sophy, guess who was here last evening." Her eyes began to shine. "Mrs.
Nor could she save herself from the crudity of staring with all her eyes at this handsome offshoot of the Hyndses, with what in a less polite person might well have been called avid curiosity. I fear you can never hope to grow up, Miss Leetchy, while you cherish a jejune passion for butter-scotch." "Oh, I don't know. It might have been fudge!" Alicia replied airily. "But thank you, Mr.
"You are far from being a fool, Richard. And you do mean well. Everybody knows that." He turned appealingly to his dear Leetchy, and received his first lesson in Domestic Science. "Miss Martha is right, Richard," she decided. "Leetchy," the doctor asked, when the mollified Miss Hopkins had departed, "why did Martha go off grinning?" "How should I know?" wondered Alicia, innocently.
If I stay alive, will you marry me, Leetchy?" "If you don't, I can't m-m-marry any-anybody at all!" wailed Alicia. "Amen!" said the doctor. "Now stop crying, and put your hand into my pocket, and you'll find something that's been owing you this long time, Leetchy."
Painfully he rose, and stood staggering on his feet, big, pale, shaken, with a bump the size of an egg on the side of his head, but with such shining blue eyes! He put out a big hand and lifted Alicia from the ground. "Leetchy," said Doctor Geddes, "if you ever take back what you've said I shall be sorry I wasn't killed. But I don't mind staying alive if you'll keep on loving me.
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