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MISS THANKFUL'S LOVE AFFAIR1 " "TvEAR, dear Janet, you don't say so
" JLxMiss Thankful pulled off her garden- gloves in her excitement
and dropped down upon the weather-stained seat of the old
summer-house. " You don't mean to say," she repeated, " that Reuben
Gale is really coming back to Middleway after all these years? " "
Yes'm," replied Janet, pausing for a moment in her work among the
currant- bushes; " Debby, Mis' Hackett's help, told me so last
night after prayer-meetin'." " Dear, dear," said Miss Thankful
again, " I wish I had gone to prayer-meeting; ?at least," she
added, flushing at her own remark, " I wish I had been able to go,
for you know, Janet, I always do go when I can; but there was such
a heavy shower yesterday, and it is quite a walk to the
meeting-house; the roads were bad, too, and with my little cold you
don't think it would really have been prudent for me to go, do you,
Janet? " 1 Published in " The National Magazine," September, 1896.
" No'm, I don't," said Janet, pulling her sun-bonnet farther over
her eyes, " an' I don't think that folks with coughs like yourn
ought to be out afore the grass is dry with no overshoes on." "
Dear, dear, did I forget my overshoes? " exclaimed Miss Thankful,
looking anxiously down at her little feet. " What would I do,
Janet, without you to look after me? Well, I'll go in now and make
that custard." Half way up the narrow, tangled path she turned to
ask again, " When did you say Mr. Gale was coming, Janet? " "
Debbysaid she reckoned he was coming this week, from what Miss
Bassett said to Mis' Hackett." " My as soon as that? Well, it will
be pleasant to see some life in the old house again. It seems as if
we had had ghosts for next-door neighbors these thirty ? yes,
Janet, 'tis thirty yea...
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