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Under the Lilacs

CHAPTER XXII
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Sister wants to come soon, but I'd rather have our honeymoon somewhere else,--Niagara, Newfoundland, West Point, or the Rocky Mountains," said Thorny, mentioning a few of the places he most desired to see.
"Do you like him ?" asked Ben, very naturally wondering if the new master would approve of the young man-of-all-work.
"Don't I?
George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister, perhaps he'll stiffen up and turn sober.

Won't it be a shame if he does ?" and Thorny looked alarmed at the thought of losing his congenial friend.
"Tell about him; Miss Celia said you might", put in Bab, whose experience of "jolly" ministers had been small.
"Oh, there isn't much about it.

We met in Switzerland going up Mount St.Bernard in a storm, and--" "Where the good dogs live ?" inquired Betty, hoping they would come into the story.
"Yes; we spent the night up there, and George gave us his room; the house was so full, and he wouldn't let me go down a steep place where I wanted to, and Celia thought he'd saved my life, and was very good to him.

Then we kept meeting, and the first thing I knew she went and was engaged to him.

I didn't care, only she would come home so he might go on studying hard and get through quick.


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