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A Colonial Wooing
Chapter I.
A Fruitless Discussion.
"Mother, John has spoken—"
"Daughter, father will not approve—"
"Of John's having remarked it is a pleasant day?"
"I supposed that thee meant that he had—"
"Suggested so serious a matter as my taking up—"
"Daughter, thee is strangely giddy—"
"Mother, is thee not strangely hasty to suppose—"
"Ruth, dear, let me—"
"Yes, mother; but first let me—"
Both talked so nearly at once that it might be said that neither listened, and now a word
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