What made you think
such a thing possible?"
The Professor was quite portly, and it was with some little difficulty
that he regained his feet, and his face was rather red with the exertion
when he had succeeded.
"Well, you see," said he, "I never thought much about it till that city
feller came down here to board; then the whole town knew that you and
'Zeke Pettengill had had a fallin' out, and then by and by that city
feller who was boardin' with your folks went away, and I kinder thought
that as you didn't have any steady feller--"
Huldy broke in,--"You thought I was in the market again and that your
chances were as good as those of any one else?"
"Yes, that's jest it," said the Professor. "You put it jest as I would
have said it, if you hadn't said it fust."
"Well, really, Professor, I can't understand what gave you and the whole
town the idea that there was any falling out between Mr. Pettengill and
myself. We have grown up together, we have always loved each other very
much, and we have been engaged to be married--"
"Since when?" broke in the Professor, excitedly.
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