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I arrive on your invitation to pass the day" "But I didn't expect you before the sun." "To pass the day, and find you absent and the breakfast-table not cleared away." "My dear Roger, we have not quite taken our habits yet. As soon as the country-air shall have wakened and made over Helen and Mrs. Laudersdale, you will find us ready for company at daybreak."
Ransom appreciated this fact, and said he hoped she, too, was getting some good from the country-air he was afraid she was very much confined to her profession, in Boston; to which she replied "Well, I was just taking a little exercise along the road. I presume you don't realise what it is to be one of four ladies grouped together in a small frame-house."
"I was a girl of fifteen, and was staying with my aunt for the benefit of the country-air, when one of these great gatherings took place. Having heard a great deal about their strange doings at these meetings, I begged very hard to be allowed to make one of the spectators. My aunt, who knew what a merry, light-hearted creature I was, demurred for some time before she granted my request.
I did not open it just then. I was thinking of Josephine Bowen. Every summer, for three years, Mr. and Mrs. Bowen had come to Ridgefield for country-air, bringing with them their adopted daughter, whose baptismal name had resigned in favor of the pet appellation "Kitten," a name better adapted to her nature and aspect than the Impératrice appellation that belonged to her.
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