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The Valley of the Moon

CHAPTER XIV
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Not until after the furniture is all paid for anyway." "Wise in your generation, eh?
In my days girls were more modest than to know anything about disgraceful subjects." "As babies ?" Saxon queried, with a touch of gentle malice.
"Yes, as babies." "The first I knew that babies were disgraceful.

Why, Sarah, you, with your five, how disgraceful you have been.

Billy and I have decided not to be half as disgraceful.

We're only going to have two--a boy and a girl." Tom chuckled, but held the peace by hiding his face in his coffee cup.
Sarah, though checked by this flank attack, was herself an old hand in the art.

So temporary was the setback that she scarcely paused ere hurling her assault from a new angle.
"An' marryin' so quick, all of a sudden, eh?
If that ain't suspicious, nothin' is.


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