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Pettengill. The day of the marriage has not been fixed, but our readers
will be informed in due season.'"
"I'm afraid, Deacon," said Quincy, "that's all my fault. I met young
Chisholm last Tuesday when I was over to the Centre, and he told me
something that actually obliged me to confide in him the fact that I
knew that your daughter was not likely to become Mrs. Obadiah Strout,
but he promised me on his word of honor that he would not put it in the
paper unless he got the same information from some other source."
The Deacon haw-hawed in good old-fashioned country style.
"Waal," said he, "young Chisholm tackled me, and said he heard a rumor
abeout Huldy and Strout, and, as you say, Mr. Sawyer, he kinder 'bliged
me to set him right. But he made me a promise, as he did you, thet he
wouldn't say anythin' abeout it unless some other feller told him the
same thing."
"That young man is sure to get ahead in the world; he buncoed us both,
Deacon," said Quincy.
"Waal, I dunno as I know just what you mean by buncoed," said the
Deacon, "but I kinder think he got the best of both on us on thet
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