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The Morgesons

CHAPTER XXI
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"In a day or two, then." "Know what you undertake, Cass," said Alice.
"She always does," he answered.
"Let me go, papa," begged Edward.
"By and by, my boy." "What a compliment, Cass! He does not object to venture you." He proposed Fairtown, six miles from Rosville, as he had business there.

The morning we were to go proved cloudy, and we waited till afternoon, when Charles, declaring that it would not rain, ordered Aspen to be harnessed.

I went into Alice's room tying my bonnet; he was there, leaning over the baby's crib, who lay in it crowing and laughing at the snapping of his fingers.

Alice was hemming white muslin.
"Take a shawl with you, Cass; I think it will rain, the air is so heavy." "I guess not," said Charles, going to the window.

"What a nuisance that lane is, so near the garden! I'll have it plowed soon, and enclosed." "For all those wild primroses you value so ?" she asked.
"I'll spare those." Charlotte came to tell us that the chaise was ready.
"Good-bye, Alice," he said, passing her, and giving her work a toss up to the ceiling.
"Be careful." "Take care, sir," said Penn, after we were in the chaise, "and don't give way to him; if you do, he'll punish you.


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