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"It vonders me now if Granny's home," thought Phœbe as she opened the wooden gate and entered the yard. "Here I am," called Granny. "Back in the garden. I-to-goodness, Phœbe, did you come once! I just said yesterday to Aaron that I didn't see none of you folks for long, and here you come! You haven't seen the flowers for a while." "Oh!" Phœbe breathed an ecstatic little word of delight.
Before he could answer the plea Maria Metz found her voice and spoke authoritatively: "Jacob Metz, goodness knows you're sometimes dumb enough to do foolish things, but you surely ain't goin' to leave Phœbe go off to learn singing! Throwing away money like that! And what good is to come of it, I'd like to know. Who put that dumb notion in her head, it just now vonders me!
"Ach, Phœbe, it vonders me now that Barb'll spend all that money for carfare and to stay in the city and then mebbe it's all for nothin'. There was old Bevy Way and a lot of old people I knowed went blind and they died blind. When abody gets so old once it seems the doctors can't do much. I guess it just is to be." "Oh, Aunt Maria," Phœbe said hotly, "I don't believe in that is-to-be business!
"Why, how dumb you talk! I guess abody wants to help. Them soldiers are fightin' for us. Now you can get yourself something to eat. It vonders me, anyhow, why you come home this time of the year. You said you'd stay till June." "I came because I want to be here." "So. Then I guess you got enough once of the city." "Yes," said Phœbe, laughing. "But how is everybody?" "All pretty good.
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