Why, only that same morning he had bought a charming cottage piano and shipped it to the Junction for Patsy's use.

That seemed to settle the matter definitely.

To be balked of his summer vacation on his own farm was a thing Mr.Merrick would not countenance for a moment.
"Give me that letter, Major," he said; "I'll run this enterprise myself." The Major resigned with a sigh of relief.
Uncle John promptly sent the real estate agent a draft for five hundred dollars, with instructions to get the farm in shape for occupancy at the earliest possible day.
"If Old Hucks is a farm hand and a bachelor," he wrote, "let him stay till I come and look him over.

If he's a married man and has a family, chuck him out at once.

I'm sure you are a man of good taste and judgment.