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Fanny knew it was of no use delaying longer and she answered gently, but decidedly, "Father, I have no desire to go to New Orleans. I cannot go." "Fudge on being so very modest," replied Mr. Middleton. "It is nateral-like that you should want to see him, and nobody’ll think less of you." Fanny answered, "You know I have thought of going to New York with Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
They do say they’re terrible dangerous things, and fer my part I can’t see what good they’ll be, fer nobody’ll ever be willin’ to ride behind ’em, but I’d like to see it start well enough. And that sweet little wife of yours thinks she ain’t got a good enough bonnet. Land sakes!
"There," said Leffie, as Rondeau laid over the spot a piece of fresh green turf, "nobody’ll ever have any idee whose grave this is." Rondeau rolled up his eyes, and assuming a most doleful expression, said, "Couldn’t you manage to bust a tear or two, just to make it seem like a real buryin’?"
Johnnie Gardener ran in from the office. “Easy, boys, easy!” he entreated them. “You’ll wake the cook, and there’ll be the devil to pay for me. She won’t hear the music, but she’ll be down the minute anything’s moved in the dining-room.” “Oh, what do you care, Johnnie? Fire the cook and wire Molly to bring another. Come along, nobody’ll tell tales.”
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