"
"Oh, nonsense," cried 'Zekiel; "why should you have anything on your
mind? You are a little bit low spirited because you have been cooped up
in bed so long."
"No," said Huldy, "that isn't it. I have wronged a person and I am
afraid that person will never fully forgive me. I am real sorry for what
I have done, and I am going to tell the person and ask for pardon."
"Well," said 'Zekiel, "the person must be pretty mean spirited if he or
she don't forgive you after you say you are sorry, 'specially if you
promise not to do it again."
"Oh, I shall never do it again," said Huldy. "Once has nearly killed me.
I suffered ten times more from that than from my broken arm."
"Well," said 'Zekiel, "if that person don't forgive you I don't want
anything more to do with him."
"Let me tell you a little story," said Huldy. "A little boy and girl
whose homes were not a quarter of a mile apart grew up together in a
little country town. As children they loved each other, and as they grew
older that love really grew stronger, though not so plainly shown or
spoken. Everybody thought that one day they would be married, though he
had never asked her to be his wife.
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