"
At the front door 'Zekiel and Huldy met Quincy. The latter had turned
Miss Very over to the care of Mrs. Maxwell, and had got one of the twins
to carry the young lady's trunk to her room, which was the one formerly
occupied by Mandy. He had then driven the carryall around to the barn
and was returning, anxious to bear his tidings of success to Alice, when
he met the departing couple.
"I hear you are going to leave us," said Huldy.
"Who told you?" inquired Quincy.
"Alice," replied Huldy; "and I told her she'd miss you very much when
you were gone."
"I am afraid," replied Quincy, "that any service that I have rendered
Miss Pettengill has not been of so important a nature that it would be
greatly missed. I am glad that I have succeeded in securing her a
companion and assistant of her own sex, which will much more than
compensate for the loss of my feeble services."
"That's what I don't like about city folks," said Huldy Pettengill, as
she walked along the path, hanging on her husband's arm.
"What's that?" asked 'Zekiel bluntly.
"Because," continued Huldy, "they use such big words to cover up their
real feelings.
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